Oreorchis itoana (F.Maek.) Perner 2004Photo by © The National Digital Archives Program, Herbarium Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan Website

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Common Name The Ito Oreorchis

Flower Size .8" [2 cm]

Found in the western Himalayas, Assam, the eastern Himalayas, Nepal, southwestern Sichuan, northwestern Yunnan, Myanmar and Taiwan in alpine coniferous forests, bamboo thckets and in open grasslands at elevations of 2800 to 3200 meters as a mini-miniature to miniature sized, cold growing terrestrial with a rhizome giving rise to underground, ovate pseduobulbs carrying a single, apical, oblanceolate to lanceolate, arching downwards, plicate leaf that blooms in the late spring and early summer on an erect to ascending, basal thick, glabrous, dull green flushed with purple brown, well spaced, 5 to 7 flowered inflorescence.

Synonyms *Corallorhiza indica Lindl. 1858; Oreorchis foliosa var. indica (Lindl.) N.Pearce & P.J.Cribb 1996; Tainia gokanzanensis Masam. 1937

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR Die Orchideen Band 3 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas Liferung #14 820 - 880 1984 as Tainia gokanzanensis; The Wild Orchids of Taiwan Lin & Wang 2014 photo fide;

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