!Phreatia elegans Lindl. 1830 SECTION Phreatia

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Inflorescence photo by © Thjomas Dohling and his Webshots Orchid Photo Website

Drawing Drawing by © Pradhan

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Common Name The Elegant Phreatia

Flower Size .08" [2mm]

Found in India, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, Assam, Yunnan province of China and the eastern Himalayas in submontane and tropical wet evergreen forests at elevations around 750 to 2000 meters as a miniature to small sized, warm to cold growing epiphyte with a stout, more or less pseudobulbous stem carrying 1 to 3, linear-oblong to oblanceolate, obtuse to retuse, disitichous, narrowing below into the sessile base leaves that blooms in the late summer on an erect to arching, glabrous, lateral, 4 to 6.8" [10 to 17 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence with distant, lanceolate, acute bracts and ovate-oblong to obovate-oblong, acuminate, single veined floral bracts.

Synonyms Eria elegans (Lindl.) Rchb.f. 1868; Thelasis elegans (Lindl.) Blume 1856

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Sikkim-Himalaya Part 1 King & Pantling 1898 drawing good; Die Orchideen #6 21-24 tafel 7 Rudolph Schlechter 1971 photo ok; Botanisk Tidsskrift Bind 66 Hefte 4 Contributions to the Orchid Flora of Thailand III Seidenfaden 1971 drawing fide; Indian Orchids, Guide to Identification and Culture vol 2 Pradhan 1979 drawing fide; A Revised Handbook to the Flora of Ceylon Vol 2 Dassanayake & Fosberg 1981 drawing fide; The Manual Of Cultivated Orchid Species Bechtel, Cribb & Launert 1992 drawing ok; The Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002 drawing good; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007 drawing good; A Century of New Orchid Records in Bhutan Royal Government of Bhutan 2017 Drawing/photo fide; Atlas of Native Orchids of China Vol 2 Jin Xiaohua, Li Jianwu and Ye Deping 2019 photo fide;

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