!Cephalantheropsis longipes (Hook.f.) Ormerod 1998

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Common Name The Long Stemmed Cephalantheropsis - In China Bai Hua Huang Lan

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in Taiwan, the Chinese Himalayas, Assam, eastern Himalayas, Sikkim, Myanmar, Malaysia, Vietnam, Sumatra and the Philippines in forests at elevations around 2000 meters as a medium sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with a stem that is slightly swollen at the base and carrying leafless sheaths and carrying 5 to 8, elliptic to elliptic-oblong, acuminate-caudate, subsessile to petiolate base leaves that blooms in the fall and winter on an erect, arising from half way up the stem, puberulent, 3.2 to 8.8" [8 to 22 cm] long, laxy 5 to 15 flowered inflorescence with cauducous, lanceolate, acuminate floral bracts

Synonyms Alismorkis longipes (Hook.f.) Kuntze 1891; Calanthe dolichopoda Fukuy. 1935; Calanthe gracilis var. sumatrana J.J.Sm. 1945; *Calanthe longipes Hook.f. 1890; Cephalantheropsis lateriscapa Guillaumin 1960; Gastrorchis lateriscapa (Guillaumin) Aver. 1988; Phaius longipes (Hook.f.) Holttum 1947; Phaius mindorensis Ames 1907

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Sikkim-Himalaya Part 1 King & Pantling 1898 as Calanthe longipes drawing fide; Gard. Bull. Singapore 11:286 Holttum 1947 as Phaius longipes; AOS Bulletin Vol 27 No 4 1958 as Calanthe longipes drawing fide; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitnand 1961 as Phaius longipes fig 251 drawing not = C obcordata; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitnand 1961 as Phaius longipes fig 252 drawing fide; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1965 corrections; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 as Phaius longipes; The Complete Writings on Philippine Orchids Vol 1 Quisumbing 1981 as Phaius mindorensis; Die Orchideen Band 3 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas Liferung #14 820 - 880 1984; Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 15 881 - 944 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1984 as Phaius mindorensis; Identification of the Orchids [Orchidaceae Juss.] Vietnam Averyanov 1994 as Gastrorchis lateriscapa; Orchid Digest Vol 62 #4 1998 as C lateriscapa drawing ok; Orchid Digest Vol 62 #4 1998 drawing goodOrchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002 drawing fide; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009; Flora of China Illustrations Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2010 drawing fide; Wild Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia Ong, O'Byrne, Yong & Saw 2011 photo fide; Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 17 2016 drawing/photo fide;

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