Phaius nanus Hook.f. 1890

TYPE Drawing by Hooker Icones 21 1890

Common Name The Small Phaius

Flower Size 2 to 2.4" [5 to 6 cm]

Found in Assam, Bangladesh, the eastern Himalayas and Myanmar as a small sized terrestrial with no pseduobulbs and 1 to 4, narrowly elliptic to oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, gradually narrowing below into the grooved, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the winter on an erect, glabrous, 3.2 to 6.4" [8 to 16 cm] long, 2 to 3 flowered inflorescence with elliptic-lanceolate, acute bracts and lanceolate, boat-shaped, acute floral bracts.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones 21 Hooker 1892 drawing fide; The Orchids of Sikkim-Himalaya Part 1 King & Pantling 1898 as Phajus nanus drawing ok; Indian Orchids, Guide to Identification and Culture Pradhan 1979; Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 15 881 - 944 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1984; The Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002; AOS Bulletin Vol 84 #8 2015 photo fide;

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