Cheirostylis pusilla Lindl. 1840
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Common Name The Tiny Cheirostylis - In China Xi xiao zhu lan
Flower Size small
Found in Taiwan, southern Yunnan province of China, Assam eastern Himalayas, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Malaysia and Vietnam in dense forest in deep shade at elevations around 1300 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing terrestrial with an erect, terete, stem carrying 3 to 6, scattered along the stem, green, ovate, glabrous, acute, truncate-rounded below into the petiolate like base leaves that blooms in the earlier fall on a terminal, erect, glabrous to sparsely pubescent, .4 to 1" [1 cm] long, 1 to 2 flowered inflorescence with 1 to 2 sterile bracts and has green, ovate, shorter than the ovary, acuminate floral bracts.
Synonyms Cheirostylis malleifera C.S.P.Parish & Rchb.f. 1874; Cheirostylis pusilla var. simplex T.P.Lin 2017
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfadden & Smitnand 1965 corrections drawing fide; Dansk Botanisk Arkiv Bind 32 nr 2 Orchids of Thailand VI Neottiideae Seidenfaden 1978 drawing fide; Dansk Botanisk Arkiv Bind 32 nr 2 Orchids of Thailand VI Neottiideae Seidenfaden 1978 as C malleifera drawing fide; The Orchids of Penninsular Mayasia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Wood 1992 drawing fide; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009; Flora of China Vol 25 Illustrations Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2010 drawing fide; Flora of Thailand Vol 12 Part 1 Orchidaceae Pedersen, Kurzweil, Sudee & Cribb 2011 drawing fide; A review on Spiranthoideae genera in Arunachal Pradesh Bulletin of Arunachal Forest Research 27 (1&2) : 1-33, Rao 2011; Turczaninowia 16(4):26-46 NEW AND RARE ORCHIDS (ORCHIDACEAE) IN THE FLORA OF CAMBODIA AND LAOS Averyanov 2013 photo fide; Wulfenia 22 [2015]: 137 - 188 New Orchids in the Flora of Vietnam Averyanov, Nguyen, Tich, Nguyen, Nong, Nguyen and Xuan photo plant only; Turczaninowia 19 (3): 5–58 L. V. Averyanov, Khang Sinh Nguyen etal 2016 ; Atlas of Native Orchids of China Vol 1 Jin Xiaohua, Li Jianwu and Ye Deping 2019 photo fide
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