Luisia macrotis Rchb.f. 1869
Inflorescence Photos by © Karel & Alex Petrzelka and the Vietnam Orchid Website
Common Name The Large Eared Luisia
Flower Size .8" [2 cm]
Found in the Chinese Himalayas, Assam, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam at elevations of 700 to 1100 meters as a small to medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with an erect stem carrying cylindrical leaves that blooms in the spring on very short, 1 or 2 flowered inflorescence
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; AOS Bulletin Vol 44 #4 1975 drawing fide; Opera Botanica #95 Seidenfaden 1988 drawing/photo fide; Identification of the Orchids [Orchidaceae Juss.] Vietnam Averyanov 1994; A Field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2001 photo good; A field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2005 photo good; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007; Native Orchids From Gaoligongshan Mountains, China Xiaohua, Xiaodong and Xiaochun 2009 photo fide; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009; Atlas of Native Orchids of China Vol 2 Jin Xiaohua, Li Jianwu and Ye Deping 2019 photo ok?;
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