Phalaenopsis zhejiangensis (Z.H.Tsi) Schuit. 2012 SUBGENUS Proboscidioides [Rolfe] E. A. Christensen 2001

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Common Name The Zhejiang Phalaenopsis [a province of southeastern China] - In China Xiang Bi Lan

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in eastern Zhejiang China on branches in sparse woods or at forest margins at elevations of 300 to 900 meters as a mini-miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with a very short stem enveloped by leaf bearing sheaths and carrying 1 to 3, thin, obovate to obovate-oblong, slighly hooked-mucronate apically, often dark purple spotted beneath and along margin leaves that blooms in the summer on a basal, solitary, slender, 3.2 to 5.2" [8 to 13 cm] long, racemose, 8 to 19 flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Doritis zhejiangensis (Z.H.Tsi) T.Yukawa & K.Kita 2005; Nothodoritis zhejiangensis Z.H.Tsi 1989

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 23 1393 - 1456 Brieger 1990 as Nothodoritis zhejiangensis drawing fide; Orchid Digest Vol 59 #1 as Nothodoritis zhejiangensis 1995 TYPE Drawing fide; Native Orchids of China in Colour Singchi, Zhanhuo and Yibo 1999 as Nothodoritis zhejiangensis photo fide; Phalaenopsis A Monograph E A Christenson 2001; A Field Guide to the Orchids of China Singchi, Zhongjian, Yibo, Xiaohua and Zhanhuo 2009 as Nothodoritis zhejiangensis photo fide; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009 as Nothodoritis zhejiangensis; Flora of China Vol 25 Illustrations Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2010 as Nothodoritis zhejiangensis drawing fide; Orchid Digest Vol 83 #4 2019 Photo fide

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