!Panisea demissa (D. Don) Pfitzer 1907
TYPE for the genus
Photo By © Eric Hunt
Photo by Dale and Deni Borders.
Common Name The Humble Panisea - In China Ai Qu Chun Lan
Flower Size .4 to .45" [1 to 1.2 cm]
Found in the eastern Himalayas, Assam, Nepal, Bhutan, Sikkim, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, southern China and Vietnam at elevations of 1500 to 3300 meters as a miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with close set, narrowly ovoid to ovoid pseudobulbs carrying 1 to 2, lanceolate to elliptic-lanceolate, plicate, acute, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the fall on a terminal, decurved, laxly 5 to 8 flowered, slender, 1.2 to 1.8" [3 to 4.5 cm] long, racemose inflorescence that is basally sheathed and has ovate, acute membraneous, persistent floral bracts all arising on a new growth.
Synonyms Coelogyne parviflora Lindl. 1833; *Dendrobium demissum D. Don 1825; Panisea parviflora (Lindl.) Lindl. 1854; Panisea reflexa Lindl. 1854
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; A Century of Indian Orchids Vol 5 Hooker 1895 as P parviflora drawing fide; The Orchids of Sikkim-Himalaya Part 1 King & Pantling 1898 drawing fide; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959 drawing not = Pan apiculata; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1965 corrections; Botanisk Tidsskrift Bild 70 Hft 1 Contributions to the flora of Thailand VI Seidenfaden 1975; Indian Orchids, Guide to Identification and Culture vol 2 Pradhan 1979 drawing fide; Beautiful Orchids of Nepal Rajbhandari & Bhattarai 2001; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002 drawing/photo fide; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009; Flora of China Vol 25 Illustrations Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2010 drawing fide
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