Cheirostylis chinensis Rolfe 1895
Photo by © Liu Yan and The Chinese Orchid Society Website
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Common Name The Chinese Cheirostylis - In China Zhong Hua Cha Zhu Lan
Flower Size 1/2" [1.25 cm]
Found in Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, China, Taiwan and the Philippines in wet broad-leaved and coniferous mossy forests on rocky limestone at elevations of 200 to 1550 meters as a miniature to small sized, hot to cool growing terrestrial or lithophyte with one to 5, basal, dull gray green, narrowly ovate to ovate-cordate, acute leaves that blooms in the late winter and early spring on an erect, tomentose, 9.4" [23.5 cm] long, 1 to 10 flowered inflorescence with triangular-ovate, acuminate, sparsely hairy to sub-glabrous, longer than the ovary floral bracts
Synonyms Cheirostylis philippinensis Ames 1908; Cheirostylis taiwanensis Yamam. 1933
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Fascile 2 Ames 1908 as C philippinensisdrawing fide; Dansk Botanisk Arkiv Bind 32 nr 2 Orchids of Thailand VI Neottiideae Seidenfaden 1978 drawing fide; Identification of the Orchids [Orchidaceae Juss.] Vietnam Averyanov 1994; Native Orchids of China in Colour Singchi, Zhanhuo and Yibo 1999 photo fide; Orchids of Vietnam, Illustrated survey, part 1 Averyanov 2008; A Field Guide to the Orchids of China Singchi, Zhongjian, Yibo, Xiaohua and Zhanhuo 2009 photo fide; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009; Flora of China Vol 25 Illustrations Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2010 drawing ok; Turczaninowia 16(4):26-46 NEW AND RARE ORCHIDS (ORCHIDACEAE) IN THE FLORA OF CAMBODIA AND LAOS Averyanov 2013 ; The Wild Orchids in Yunnan Xu Xiang Ye & Liu 2010 photo ok; Atlas of Native Orchids of China Vol 1 Jin Xiaohua, Li Jianwu and Ye Deping 2019 photo fide
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