Epipactis mairei Schltr. 1919 SECTION Megapactis Schlechter

Photo by © 'David Llewelyn' and the Kool Plants.co.uk Website

Part sun Cold to CoolLATESpring toSummer

Common Name Maire's Epipactis [French Missionary and Botanist early 1900's] - In China Da Ye Huo Shao Lan

Flower Size .6 to 1"+ [1.6 to 2.6 cm]

Found in Nepal, the eastern Himalayas, Myanmar and southern China in swamps and marshy locales on grassy shady banks at elevations of 900 to 4000 meters as a medium szied, warm to cold growing terrestrial with a straight to flexuous, terete, base glabrous, apex papillose-pubescent stem carrying 7 to 8, erect to spreading, broadly ovate to suborbicular, acuminate, glabrous leaves that blooms in the spring and summer on an erect, laxly many flowered inflorescence with a 6" [15 cm] long rachis and somewhat reflexed, elliotic to elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate floral bracts.

Synonyms Amesia mairei (Schltr.) Hu 1925; Amesia schensiana (Schltr.) Hu 1925; Amesia setschuanica (Ames & Schltr.) Hu 1925; Amesia wilsonii (Schltr.) Hu 1925; Arthrochilium mairei (Schltr.) Szlach. 2003; Arthrochilium schensianum (Schltr.) Szlach. 2003; Arthrochilium setschuanicum (Ames & Schltr.) Szlach. 2003; Arthrochilium wilsonii (Schltr.) Szlach. 2003; Epipactis schensiana Schltr. 1922; Epipactis setschuanica Ames & Schltr. 1919; Epipactis wilsonii Schltr. 1924; Helleborine mairei (Schltr.) Soó 1929; Helleborine schensiana (Schltr.) Soó 1929; Helleborine setschuanica (Ames & Schltr.) Soó 1929; Helleborine wilsonii (Schltr.) Soó 1929

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Native Orchids of China in Colour Singchi, Zhanhuo and Yibo 1999 photo fide; The Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002; Native Orchids of Shaanxi Shaanxi Science & Technology Press 2007 photo fide; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007; Orchids of Huanglong Perner, Tang Si-Yuan 2007 photos fide; Native Orchids From Gaoligongshan Mountains, China Xiaohua, Xiaodong and Xiaochun 2009 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; The Wild Orchids in Yunnan Xu Xiang Ye & Liu 2010 photos fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #10 2016 photo fide; Atlas of Native Orchids of China Vol 1 Jin Xiaohua, Li Jianwu and Ye Deping 2019 photo fide;

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------