!Otochilus albus Lindl. 1828
Photo by © Lamunpan and Phuket Outdoors Website
Photo by © David Kuehn.
Drawing by © Seidenfaden
Common Name The White Otochilus - In China Xia Ye Er Chun Lan
Flower Size .4 to .6" [1 to 1.8 cm]
Found from the eastern Himalayas, Assam, Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam and southern China in primary highland cloud forests at elevations of 600 to 2400 meters as a small sized, warm to cold growing epiphyte with subcylindrical, grooved pseudobulbs enveloped basally by tubular sheaths in youth and carrying oblong-elliptic, acumninate petiolate base leaves that blooms in the spring on a slender, slightly fractiflex, 4.8 to 8" [12 to 20 cm] long, laxly 12 to 16 flowered, racemose inflorescence that is enveloped by imbricate sheaths and has caducous, ovate-lanceolate, floral bracts.
The photo above by David Kuehn is of a rather unhealthy one that had fallen from its branch. The healthy plants were unreachable. Its blooming period was just ending in late April.
Synonyms Broughtonia pendula Wall. ex Lindl. 1830; Broughtonia pendula Wall. ex Hook.f. 1890; Coelogyne alba (Lindl.) Rchb.f. 1862
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Sikkim-Himalaya Part 1 King & Pantling 1898 drawing fide; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959 drawing fide; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 drawing fide; Botanisk Tidsskrift Bind 71 1-30 Contributions to the Orchid Flora of Thailand VII Seidenfaden 1976 drawing fide; Indian Orchids, Guide to Identification and Culture vol 2 Pradhan 1979; Rudolph Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 16/17/18 945-1128 Brieger, Senghas 1985; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 27 1648 - 1712 Brieger 1993; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 27 1648 - 1712 Brieger 1993; Identification of the Orchids [Orchidaceae Juss.] Vietnam Averyanov 1994; A field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2001 as Othochilus albus photo ok; Beautiful Orchids of Nepal Rajbhandari & Bhattarai 2001; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002; A field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2005 as Othochilus albus photo ok; The Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007 drawing ok; Native Orchids From Gaoligongshan Mountains, China Xiaohua, Xiaodong and Xiaochun 2009 photo fide; The Wild Orchids in Yunnan Xu Xiang Ye & Liu 2010 photos fide; A Century of New Orchid Records in Bhutan Royal Government of Bhutan 2017 Drawing/photo fide; Atlas of Native Orchids of China Vol 1 Jin Xiaohua, Li Jianwu and Ye Deping 2019 photo fide;
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