Chrysoglossum ornatum Blume 1825
Photos by © Dr. E.F. de Vogel and Peter O'Byrne, courtesy of André Schuiteman, and Jaap Vermeulen and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website
Photo by © Karel & Alex Petrzelka and the Vietnam Orchid Website
Common Name or Meaning The Ornate Chrysoglossum - In China Jin Chun Lan
Flower Size [.8" [2 cm]
Found in Taiwan, Guangxi, Hainan and Yunnan province of China, Assam, eastern Himalayas, India, Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam, Java, Malaysia, Sulawesi, Sumatra, New Guinea, Fiji, New Caledonia, Samoa and Vanuatu on or near the tops of ridges in forests with deep humus at elevations of 800 to 1750 meters as a small to just medium sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial orchid with conical to terete, dark green pseudobulbs enveloped basally by a sheath and carrying a single, apical, elliptical, plicate, acuminate, abruptly narrowing below in to the elongate petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall on a purple, arising from the rhizome, to 28" [70 cm] long, several [12] flowered, racemose inflorescence with a few tubular basal sheaths and persistent, green, spreading, lanceolate-ovate, acute, floral bracts.
Synonyms Ania maculata Thwaites 1861; Chrysoglossum cyrtopetalum Schltr. 1911; Chrysoglossum erraticum Hook.f. 1890; Chrysoglossum formosanum Hayata 1911; Chrysoglossum gibbsiae Rolfe 1909; Chrysoglossum hallbergii Blatt. 1928; Chrysoglossum maculatum (Thwaites) Hook.f. 1890; Chrysoglossum neocaledonicum Schltr. 1906; Tainia maculata (Thwaites) Trimen 1885
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1857; Icones Plantarum Vol 21 Hooker 1891 as C erraticum drawing fide; Icones Plantarum Vol 21 Hooker 1891 as C maculatum drawing fide; The Orchids of Sikkim-Himalaya Part 1 King & Pantling 1898 as C erraticum drawing fide; Die Orchideen Von Java J.J.Sm. 1905; Die Orchideen Von Java Figuren Atlas J.J.Smith 1908 drawing fide; Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1911 as C cyrtopetalum drawing fide; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959 as C erraticum; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959 drawing fide; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1965 corrections as C erraticum drawing fide; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1965 corrections drawing/photo fide; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Flore de la Nouvelle-Caledonie et Dependences Vol 8 Orchidaceae Halle 1977 as C neocaledonicum drawing fide; Indian Orchids, Guide to Identification and Culture vol 2 Pradhan 1979 as C maculatum drawing fide; Indian Orchids, Guide to Identification and Culture vol 2 Pradhan 1979 as C erraticumdrawing fide; A Revised Handbook to the Flora of Ceylon Dassanayake & Fosberg 1981 drawing fide; Opera Botanica #72 Orchid Genera in Thailand XI Cymbidiaeae Seidenfaden 1983 drawing fide; Die Orchideen Band 3 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas Liferung #14 820 - 880 1984 drawing fide; Die Orchideen Band 3 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas Liferung #14 820 - 880 1984 as C maculatum; Die Orchideen Band 3 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas Liferung #14 820 - 880 1984 as C cyrtopetalum; The Orchids of Vanuatu Lewis & Cribb 1989; Orchids of Java Comber 1990 photo fide; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Woods & Seidenfaden 1992 drawing fide; Identification of the Orchids [Orchidaceae Juss.] Vietnam Averyanov 1994; Native Orchids of New Caledonia Societe' Neo-Caledonienne D' Orchidophile 1995 as C neocalendonicum photo fide; The Orchids of Samoa Cribb & Whistler 1996 photo fide; Orchid Monographs Vol 8 Van der Burgh & De Vogel 1997 drwaing/photo fide; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001 photo fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 42 - 43 pg 2626 - 2762 Brieger 2001 photo fide; Lindleyana Vol 17 No 1 2002; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002 drawing fide; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003; Flora Malesiana Orchids of New Guinea Vol III Shuiteman and de Vogel 2006; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007 as C hallbergii; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007 as C maculatum; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007 drawing fide; Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 3 2009 drawing/photo fide; Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 4 2009 photo fide Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009; Wild Orchids of the Cameron Highlands REACH 2009 photo fide; Wild Orchids of the Cameron Highlands REACH 2009 as C simplex photo fide; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2010 drawing ok; The Wild Orchids in Yunnan Xu Xiang Ye & Liu 2010 photos fide; Wild Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia Ong, O'Byrne, Yong & Saw 2011 photo fide; A to Z of South East Asian Orchid Species Vol 2 O'Byrne 2011 photo fide; A Century of New Orchid Records in Bhutan Royal Government of Bhutan 2017 drawing fide/photo good; Atlas of Native Orchids of China Vol 2 Jin Xiaohua, Li Jianwu and Ye Deping 2019 photo fide;
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