Otochilus lancilabius Seidenf. 1986
Photo by © LY. Th. Westra Orchids Asia Website
Drawing by © The Chinese Plant Website
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Common Name The Lanceolate Lip Otochilus - In China Kuan Ye Er Chun Lan
Flower Size .6 to .9" [1.5 to 2.2 cm]
Found in the western Himalayas, the Chinese Himalayas, Yunnan China, the eastern Himalayas, Assam, Nepal, Laos and Vietnam on trees in evergreen oak forests at elevations of 800 to 3000 meters as a small to medium sized, warm to cold growing epiphyte with subcylindrical, elongate-fusiform to clavate, basally sheathed pseudobulbs carrying elliptic-lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, acute to acuminate, narrowing below into the narrow petiolate base leaves that blooms in the fall through spring on an axillary, proteranthous, decurvevd, 5.2 to 7.4" [13 to 18.5 cm] long, lax, few flowered inflorescence with the peduncle imbricating sheathed in youth and with caducous, linear, broad, acute floral bracts.
Synonyms Otochilus albus var. lancilabius (Seidenf.) Pradhan 1979
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Botanisk Tidsskrift Bind 71 1-30 Contributions to the Orchid Flora of Thailand VII Seidenfaden 1976 drawing fide; Orchids of Kumaun Himalayas Pangtey, Samant and Rawat 1991; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002 drawing/photo fide; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007; A Field Guide to the Orchids of China Singchi, Zhongjian, Yibo, Xiaohua and Zhanhuo 2009 photo fide; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009; Flora of China Vol 25 Illustrations Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2010 drawing fide; The Wild Orchids in Yunnan Xu Xiang Ye & Liu 2010 photos fide; LANKESTERIANA 15(1): 7—50. Jeewan Singh Jalal & J. Jayanthi 2015; Atlas of Native Orchids of China Vol 1 Jin Xiaohua, Li Jianwu and Ye Deping 2019 photo fide;
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