Collabium evrardii (Gagnep.) Aver. 1999 Drawing by © Seidenfaden and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name or Meaning Evrard's Collabium

Flower Size .8" [2 cm]

Found in Vietnam as a miniature sized [out of bloom] terrestrial with a rhizome with 2" [5 cm] between each alternating then 2 to 4 - leaf bearing pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, erect, ovate, acuminate, obtuse baslly single nerved, prominent beneath, petiolate base leaf, then a flowering one blooming in the late summer and early spring on an erect, peduncle terete, elongating during anthesis, 4.42 to 5" [11.5 to 12.5 cm] long, rachis terete, elongating during anthesis, to 3.4" [8.5 cm] long, 8 to 10 flowered inflorescence with patent, ovate-lanceolate floral bracts.

Synonyms Diglyphosa evrardii (Gagnep.) Tang & F.T.Wang 1951; *Tainia evrardii Gagnep. 1932

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen Band 3 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas Liferung #14 820 - 880 1984 as Diglyphosa evradii; Identification of the Orchids [Orchidaceae Juss.] Vietnam Averyanov 1994 as Diglyphosa evrardii; Orchid Monographs Vol 8 Van der Burgh & De Vogel 1997 drawing fide;

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