Tainia minor Hook.f. 1890 Photo by © Chinafield and Chinese Plant Website
Photo by © Wild Orchids In Japan WebPage
Common Name The Insignificant Tainia - In China Dian Nan Dai Chun Lan
Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]
Found in the Chinese Himalayas, Assam, eastern Himalayas, Bhutan and Myanmar in deep, shady forests at elevations of 2000 to 2300 meters as a small to medium sized, cold growing terrestrial orchid with a cylindric, basally expanded pseudobulb carrying a single, elliptic, acuminate, thin, plicate, many veined, narrowing below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on a terminal, 2.8 to 72" [7 to 18 cm] long, 5 to 16 flowered inflorescence enveloped by 3 to 4 sheaths and has triangular, spreading floral bracts and carrying mostly simultaneous opening, resupinate flowers
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Plantarum Vol 21 Hooker 1892 drawing fide; The Orchids of Sikkim-Himalaya Part 1 King & Pantling 1898 drawing fide; 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; Orchid Monographs Vol 6 Seidenfaden 1992 drawing fide; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002; 100 Sikkim Himalayan Orchids Pradhan 2005 photo fide; The Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007; Native Orchids From Gaoligongshan Mountains, China Xiaohua, Xiaodong and Xiaochun 2009 photo fide; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009; Flora of China Illustrations Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2010 drawing fide; The Wild Orchids in Yunnan Xu Xiang Ye & Liu 2010 photos fide; 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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