Didymoplexis pallens Griff. 1844
Photos by André Schuiteman, Dr. E.F. de Vogel and Jaap Vermeulen and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website
Common Name or Meaning The Pale Didymoplexis - In Australia Crystal Bells - In China Shuang Chun Lan
Flower Size 1/2" [1.25 cm]
Found in Afghanistan, Taiwan, Assam, Bangladesh, eastern Himalayas, Bhutan, India, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, Borneo, Java, Malaysia, Philippines, Sumatra, Northwest Territory and Queensland Australia, Niue and Vanuatu at elevations of sea level to 700 meters on shady slopes and grassland borders and under bamboo thickets as a small sized, hot to warm growing mycoheterotrophic terrestrial with an underground horizontal, fleshy rhizome that gives rise to an erect, to 8" [20 cm] long, light brown, successively 1 to 2, many flowered inflorescence carrying wide open flowers occuring in the spring
Synonyms Apetalon minutum Wight 1851; Arethusa bengalensis Hemsl. 1884; Arethusa ecristata Griff. 1851; Cheirostylis kanarensis Blatt. & McCann 1932; Didymoplexis brevipes Ohwi 1937; Didymoplexis subcampanulata Hayata 1912; Didymoplexis sylvatica (Blume) Garay 1995; Epiphanes pallens (Griff.) Rchb.f. 1868; Gastrodia pallens (Griff.) F.Muell. 1873; Leucorchis minuta (Wight) Blume 1859; Leucorchis sylvatica Blume 1849
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Sikkim-Himalaya Part 1 King & Pantling 1898 drawing ok; Die Orchideen Von Java J.J.Smith 1905 as D sylvatica; Die Orchideen Von Java J.J.Smith 1905; Die Orchideen Von Java Figuren Atlas J.J.Smith 1908 drawing fide; Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Fascile 2 Ames 1908; Icones plantarum formosanarum nec non et contributiones ad floram formosanam. Hayata 1912 as D subcampanulata; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1965 corrections; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Orchids of Southern Ryukyu Islands Garay & Sweet 1974; Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 7 385 - 448 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1975; Indian Orchids, Guide to Identification and Culture Pradhan 1976 drawing fide; Dansk Botanisk Arkiv Bind 32 nr 2 Orchids of Thailand VI Neottiideae Seidenfaden 1978 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 49 #8 1980 drawing fide; Orchidiana Philipiniana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984; Orchids of Java Comber 1990 photo fide; The Orchids of Penninsular Mayasia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Wood 1992 drawing fide; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchid Flora of Kamrup District, Assam Barua 2001 drawing fide; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2002 photo fide; ; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002; 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; Native Orchids of Australia Jones 2006 photo fide; The Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007 drawing okish; A Field Guide to the Orchids of China Singchi, Zhongjian, Yibo, Xiaohua and Zhanhuo 2009 photo ok; Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 4 2009 drawing good; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009; Flora of China Vol 25 Illustrations Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2010 drawing fide; Turczaninowia 2011, 14(2) : 15–100 Averyanov 2011 drawing fide; Orchids of Odisha Misra 2014 drawing/photo fide; Turczaninowia 19 (3): 5–58 L. V. Averyanov, Khang Sinh Nguyen etal 2016 ; A Century of New Orchid Records in Bhutan Royal Government of Bhutan 2017 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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