Phreatia formosana Rolfe ex Hemsl. 189
TYPE Photo of P formosana var continentalis by Averyanov © and Taiwania 61(4):319-354 November 2016, New Species of Orchids (Orchidaceae) in the Flora of Vietnam Averyanov, Nong, Nguyen and Truong
Drawing by © Cai Shuqin and The Flora Of China Website
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Common Name or Meaning The Taiwan Phreatia - In China Fu Lan
Flower Size .08" [2 mm]
Found in southern Yunnan and Hainan provinces of China, Taiwan, Thailand and and Vietnam in open areas of forests on trees at elevations of 800 to 1800 meters as a warm to cool growing epiphyte with a tufted, very short stem enveloped by leaf sheaths and carrying subbasal, distichous, linear, obtuse to retuse apically, slightly contracted and dilated into the articulate, equitant sheath base leaves that blooms in the late summer and early fall on an axillary, erect, 2.4 to 2.8" [6 to 7 cm ]long, slender, many flowered inflorescence with subovate floral bracts
Synonyms Octarrhena formosana (Rolfe ex Hemsl.) S.S.Ying 1990; Octarrhena kotoinsularis (Fukuy.) S.S.Ying 1990; Phreatia evrardii Gagnep. 1931; Phreatia kotoinsularis Fukuy. 1936
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Identification of the Orchids [Orchidaceae Juss.] Vietnam Averyanov 1994; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009; Flora of China Vol 25 Illustrations Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2010 drawing hmm; The Wild Orchids in Yunnan Xu Xiang Ye & Liu 2010 photos ok; Taiwania 61(4):319-354 November 2016, New Species of Orchids (Orchidaceae) in the Flora of Vietnam Averyanov, Nong, Nguyen and Truong 2016 as P formosana var continentalis drawing/photo fide;
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