Luisia filiformis Hook.f. 1890
Photo by © Timothy Choltco and Troy Meyer's Flasking Homepage Website. and Flora Malesiana Vol III
Photo by André Schuiteman, Courtesy of Dr. E.F. de Vogel and Jaap Vermeulen and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website. and Flora Malesiana Vol III
Common Name The Thread Shaped Luisia - In China Chan Ban Chai Zi Gu
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Bangladesh, eastern Himalayas, India, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam and Yunnan province of China in dense forests on tree trunks at elevations of 100 to 600 meters as a small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with an often arching stem carrying at intervals towards the apex, terete, acute leaves that blooms in the spring, halfway between the internodes on a 1/2" [1.25 cm] long, successively single flowered inflorescence with obliquely imbricating, truncate, dark brown bracts
Synonyms Luisia gamblei Hook.f. 1890; Luisia grovesii Hook.f. 1890
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; A Century of Indian Orchids Vol 5 Hooker 1895 as L grovesii drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 27 No 7 1958 as Luisia grovesii drawing fide; Indian Orchids: A Guide to Identification and Culture Vol 2 Pradhan 1979 drawing fide; Opera Botanica #95 Seidenfaden 1988 drawing/photo fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 19/20 1129 - 1264 Brieger 1988; Identification of the Orchids [Orchidaceae Juss.] Vietnam Averyanov 1994; A field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2001 photo fide; The Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002; A field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2005 photo fide; 100 Sikkim Himalayan Orchids Pradhan 2005 photo fide; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009; Turczaninowia 16(4):26-46 NEW AND RARE ORCHIDS (ORCHIDACEAE) IN THE FLORA OF CAMBODIA AND LAOS Averyanov 2013 ; Atlas of Native Orchids of China Vol 2 Jin Xiaohua, Li Jianwu and Ye Deping 2019 photo fide;
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