Hemipilia limprichtii Schltr. 1922 Hemipilia sect. Hemipilia
Photos by © The Chinese Orchid Society
Photos by © Sun Hang and Sue Kelly and the Biodiversity of the Hengduan Mountains Orchid Website
Common Name Limpricht's Hemipilia [German Plant Collector 1900's] - In China Duan Ju She Hui Lan
Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]
Found in central Guizhou and central to northwestern Yunnan provinces of China in limestone meadows and in grasslands at elevations of 1000 to 1600 meters as a warm to cool growing terrestrial with narrowly oblong-ellipsoid tubers giving rise to a stem with a tubular, basal cataphyl and carrying 1 to rarely 2, ovate, cordate basally, subacute apically leaves that blooms in the summer on an erect, 11.2" [to 28 cm] long, laxly 3 to more than 10 flowered inflorescence with 4 to 9, ovate-lanceolate sterile bracts and ovate-lanceolate floral bracts
Synonyms Hemipilia cordifolia var. bifoliata Finet 1901;
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 4 193 to 256 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1973; The Native Orchids of China in Colour Singchi, Zhanhuo and Yibo 1999 as Orchis limprichtii photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 70 #7 2001 photo fide; A Field Guide to the Orchids of China Singchi, Zhongjian, Yibo, Xiaohua and Zhanhuo 2009 as Orchis limprichtii photo good; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009 as Ponerorchis limprichtii; Flora of China Vol 25 Illustrations Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2010 as Ponerorchis limprichtii drawing fide; The Wild Orchids in Yunnan Xu Xiang Ye & Liu 2010 photos fide; Phylogeny and classification of the East Asian Amitostigma alliance (Orchidaceae: Orchideae) based on six DNA markers Ying Tang, Tomohisa Yukawa, Richard M Bateman, Hong Jiang & Hua Peng 2015; as Ponerorchis limpritchii not but photo fide
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