Hemipilia puberula (King & Pantl.) Y.Tang & H.Peng 2015
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Common Name The Minutely Pubescent Hemipilia
Flower Size .24 to .4" [.6 to 1 cm]
Found in the eastern Himalayas on shaded banks and at margins of boggy flushes and marshy land at elevations of 2760 to 3600 meters as a mini-miniature to small sized, cold growintg terretrial with a globose to subellipsoid tuber giving rise to a slender stem carrying leafless basal sheaths and ebraceate above the single, linear, acute, sessile leaf that blooms in the late spring and summer on an erect, glabrous, laxly 2 to 5 flowered inflorecence with lanceolate, acute, minutely glanular margined floral bracts.
Synonyms Amitostigma puberulum (King & Pantl.) Tang & F.T.Wang 1936; Chusua puberula (King & Pantl.) N.Pearce & P.J.Cribb 2002; *Orchis puberula King & Pantl. 1898; Ponerorchis puberula (King & Pantl.) Verm. 1972
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Sikkim-Himalaya Part 1 King & Pantling 1898 as Orchis puberula drawing fide; Indian Orchids: Guide to Identification and Culture Pradhan 1976 drawing fide; The Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002 as Chusa puberula; Phylogeny and classification of the East Asian Amitostigma alliance (Orchidaceae: Orchideae) based on six DNA markers Ying Tang, Tomohisa Yukawa, Richard M Bateman, Hong Jiang & Hua Peng 2015
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