Peristylus lawii Wight 1851
Photo by © Alex Sirota and Flick River Site
Drawing by Pradhan
Common Name Law's Peristylus
Flower Size .08" [2 mm]
Found in the western Himalayas, India, Nepal and Myanmar at elevations up to 1000 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with a slender stem with a few basal sheaths and carrying 3 to 5, clustered above the middle, narrowly lanceolate to elliptic, membraneous leaves that blooms in the fall and spring on a slender, narrow, 2 to 3" [5 to 7.5 cm] long, laxly flowered inflorescence.
Synonyms Habenaria lawii (Wight) Hook.f. 1890
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of North-Western Himalaya Vol IX Part II Duthie 1906 as Habenaria lawii drawing ok; Indian Orchids: Guide to Identification and Culture Pradhan 1976 drawing fide; Orchids of Nilgiris Joseph 1987 drawing good; Orchids of Kumaun Himalayas Pangtey, Samant and Rawat 1991; The Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002; The Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007 drawing ok; Orchids of Odisha Misra 2014 drawing ok; LANKESTERIANA 15(1): 7—50. Jeewan Singh Jalal & J. Jayanthi 2015; Lankesteriana Vol 18 [1]: 23–62 Jalal & Jayanth 2018; Orchids of Maharashtra Jalal 2018 photo fide;
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