!Cryptochilus sanguineus Wall.
Photos by Rudi Hromniak and his © and his Orchid Webpage
Different Inflorescence arrangement
Photo by © Lourens Grobler
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Common Name The Blood-Red Cryptochilus - In China Hong Hua Su Bao Lan
Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]
Found in the eastern Himalayas, Assam India, Nepal, Bhutan, Sikkim, Myanmar, Thailand to southern China in broad-leafed forests on mossy trees at elevations of 1800 to 2300 meters as a small to just medium sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte or occasional lithophyte with egg-shaped pseudobulbs enveloped basally by sheaths and carrying 1 to 3, coriaceous, oblong to elliptic, drooping, acute, bright green leaves and blooms in the late spring and early summer on a terminal, erect to lateral, to 12" [to 30 cm] long, several to many flowered inflorescence carrying floral bracts that are shorter than the externally pubescent flowers which are drooping and all held to one side.
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1856; The Orchids of Sikkim-Himalaya Part 1 King & Pantling 1898 drawing fide; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 photo ok; AOS Bulletin Vol 37 # 6 1968; Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 6 321 - 384 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1975; Indian Orchids, Guide to Identification and Culture vol 2 Pradhan 1979 drawing fide; The Manual of Cultivated Orchids Bechtel, Cribb, Launert 1992 drawing/photo fide; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002; 100 Sikkim Himalayan Orchids Pradhan 2005 photo fide; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007; AOS Bulletin Vol 78 #4 2009 photo fide; Native Orchids From Gaoligongshan Maountains, China Xiaohua, Xiaodong and Xiaochun 2009 photo fide; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009; AOS Bulletin Vol 80 #6 2011 photo fide; Atlas of Native Orchids of China Vol 2 Jin Xiaohua, Li Jianwu and Ye Deping 2019 photo fide;
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