Cystorchis aphylla Ridl. 1896
Photo by © Peter O'Byrne and the The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Photo by © Tripetch P. and the Thai Orchid Blog
Common Name or Meaning The Leafless Cystorchis - In Thailand Kluai mot thin tai
Flower Size .16" [4 mm]
Found in Thailand, Malaysia, Sumatra, Java, Borneo, the Moluccas and the Philippines in hill forests in deep shade at elevations of 500 to 1700 meters as a small to medium sized, warm to cool growing, mycoheterotrophic terrestrial with erect, yellow, brown to red stems carrying pink, ovate, acute, sometimes overlapping scale leaves that blooms in the fall on an erect, terminal, 1.2 to 3.2" [3 to 8 cm] long, 3 to 10 flowered inflorescence with scarcely opening flowers
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen Von Java J.J.Smith 1905; Die Orchideen Von Java Figuren Atlas J.J.Smith 1908 drawing not = C javanica; Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Fascile 2 Ames 1908; Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 5 257- 320 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1974 drawing hmm; Dansk Botanisk Arkiv Bild 70 Hft 1 Orchid Contributions to the Orchid Flora of Thailand VI Seidenfaden 1975 drawing fide; Dansk Botanisk Arkiv Orchid Genera in Thailand Vol VI Neottiodeae Seidenfaden 1978 drawing fide; Orchids of Java Comber 1990 photo fide; The Orchids of Penninsular Mayasia and Singapore Seidenfaden & wood 1992 drawing fide; The Plants of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Orchids Wood Beaman & Beaman 1993; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchids of Borneo Vol 1 Chan, Lamb, Shim & Wood 1994 drawing/photo fide; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001 photo fide; Orchids of Sarawak Beaman, Wood & Beaman etal 2001; The Wild Orchids in Yunnan Xu Xiang Ye & Liu 2010 photos fide; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 drawing fide/ photo ok; Wild Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia Ong, O'Byrne, Yong & Saw 2011 photo ok; Flora Of Thailand Orchidaceae Vol 12 Part 1 Pedersen, Kurzweil, Suddee & Cribb 2011 drawing/photo fide; Atlas of Native Orchids of China Vol 1 Jin Xiaohua, Li Jianwu and Ye Deping 2019 photo fide
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