Risleya atropurpurea King & Pantl. 1898
Photo by © Jin Xiaohua
Plant and Flowers in situ China
Photos by © The Chinese Field Herbarium Website
TYPE Drawing by © King and Pantling
Common Name The Dark Purple Risleya - In China Zi Jang Lan
Flower Size .08" [2 mm]
Found in Sichuan, Xixang and Yunnan provinces of China as well as Bhutan, Sikkim and Myanmar in forests and thickets at elevations of 2900 to 4000 meters as a mini-minaiture to small sized, cold growing terrestrial with a narrowly conic to cylindric, fleshy rhizome giiving rise to a dark purple stem with 3, basal, tubular, amplexicaul, membraneous sheaths that blooms in the summer on an erect, 2.4 to 8.4" [6 to 21 cm] long, densely 15 to 40 flowered inflorescence with triangular-lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, membraneous floral bracts
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Sikkim-Himalaya Part 1 King & Pantling 1898 drawing fide; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Indian Orchids, Guide to Identification and Culture vol 2 Pradhan 1979 drawing fide; Die Orchideen Band 3 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas Liferung #14 820 - 880 1984 drawing fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 42 - 43 pg 2626 - 2762 Brieger 2001; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & cribb 2002 drawing fide; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009; Flora of China Vol 25 Illustrations Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2010 drawing fide
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