Peristylus stocksii (Hook.f.) Kraenzl 1898
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Common Name or Meaning Stock's Peristylus
Flower Size
Found in India in dry deciduous forests, moist deciduous forests and semi-evergreen forests at elevations of 150 to 800 metrs as a miniature to small sized, hot to warm growing terrestrial with 1 to 2, oblong to ellipsoid, tubers giving rise to an erect, slender, sheathed stem carrying more or less clustered towards the middle of the stem, oblvate to elliptic-lanceolate, wavy marigined, minutely papillate, 5 nearves, usually petiolate base leaves that blooms in the summer on an erect, peduncle 2 to 4" [5 to 10 cm] long, provided with a few, scaly, ovate, acute, 1 nerved bracts, rachis 3.6 to 9.8" [9 to 24 cm] long,m lax, subsecund, in-twisted
Synonyms *Habenaria stocksii Hook.f. 1890
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Indian Orchids: Guide to Identification and Culture Pradhan 1976; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007 drawing fide; Lankesteriana Vol 18 [1]: 23–62 Jalal & Jayanth 2018 photo good; Orchids of Maharashtra Jalal 2018 photo fide;
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