Papilionanthe biswasiana (Ghose & Mukerjee) Garay 1974

Photo by John Stanley

Common Name or Meaning The Biswasi Papilionanthe - In China Bai Hua Feng Die Lan

Flower Size 1.6" [4 cm]

Found in Myanmar, Thailand, Yunnan province of China and Borneo in forests on tree trunks at elevations of 1700 to 1900 meters as a medium sized, cool growing epiphyte with an erect to pendulous, stout, often unbranched stem carrying well spaced, terete, fleshy, abruptly contracted apically, aristate leaves that blooms in the spring on an often shorter than the leaves, 1 to 3 flowered inflorescence with 1 to 3, short sheaths and broadly ovate-triangular, slightly fleshy floral bracts and carrying widely opening flowers.

Synonyms *Aerides biswasianum Ghose & Mukerjee 1945

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen lieferung 19/20 Schlechter/Brieger 1988; Opera Botanica #95 Seidenfaden 1988 Drawing fide; The Wild Orchids of China Tsi, Chen & Mori 1997; A field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2001 photo fide; A field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2005 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 72 #1 2008 photo fide; 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; The Wild Orchids in Yunnan Xu Xiang Ye & Liu 2010 photos fide; Turczaninowia 16(4):26-46 NEW AND RARE ORCHIDS (ORCHIDACEAE) IN THE FLORA OF CAMBODIA AND LAOS Averyanov 2013 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 78 #2 2014 photo fide; Atlas of Native Orchids of China Vol 2 Jin Xiaohua, Li Jianwu and Ye Deping 2019 photo fide;

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