Cypripedium palangshanense Tang & F.T.Wang 1936 SECTION Retinervia
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Photo by Jan H. Larsen KJ Orchids Denmark
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Common Name The Palangshan Cypripedium [An area In northwestern Sichuan China] - In China Ba Lang Shan Shao Lan
Flower Size
Found in northwestern Sichuan province of China in humus rich locales in forests and thickets at elevations around 2000 to 2700 meters as a mini-miniature to small sized, cold growing terrestrial with an erect, glabrous stem mostly enveloped by several basal sheaths and carrying 2, horizontally spreading, opposite to subopposite, round to broadly elliptic, herbaceous, glabrous, 5 to 7 prominent veined, not ciliate, acute to obtuse, abruptly narrowing below into the clasping base leaves that blooms in the late spring and early summer on an erect, 4" [10 cm] long, peduncle pubescent, slender, single flowered inflorescence with lanceolateglabrous, acute, longer than the pubescent ovary floral bracts and holding the nodding flower well above the leaves
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; AOS Bulletin Vol 67 No 4 1998 photo fide; Native Orchids of China in Colour Singchi, Zhanhuo and Yibo 1999 photo fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 40 pg 2492 - 2564 Brieger 2000; AOS Bulletin Vol 75 No 10 2006 photo fide; Orchids of Huanglong Perner, Tang Si-Yuan 2007 photos fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 77 No 2 2008 photo fide; 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 fide; Atlas of Native Orchids of China Vol 1 Jin Xiaohua, Li Jianwu and Ye Deping 2019 photo fide
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