Zeuxine flava (Wall. ex Lindl.) Trimen 1885
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Photo by © the South Western Region Orchid Growers Association
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Common Name The Yellow Zeuxine - In China Huang Hua Xian Zhu Lan - In Thailand Ueang din noi pak lueang
Flower Size .1 to .15" [2 to 3 mm]
Found in the western Himalayas, Chinese Himalayas, Hong Kong, Assam, eastern Himalayas, Nepal, India, Sri Lanka; Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand, Borneo, Java and Vietnam on dry open mountainsides in evergreen hill forests at elevations of 200 to 1600 meters as a small sized, hot to cool growing terrestrial with a stem carrying 3 to 4, towards the apex, ovate to ovate-lanceolate, withering during flowering, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the later winter and early spring on a subdensely 10 to 17 flowered, to 10" [to 25 cm] long, pubescent, sheathed inflorescence
Synonyms Haplochilus flavus (Wall. ex Lindl.) D.Dietr. 1852; Hetaeria flava Lindl. ex Wall. 1832; *Monochilus flavus Wall. ex Lindl. 1840; Zeuxine chenkangensis Ormerod 2010
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Plantarum Vol 22 Hooker 1894 drawing fide; The Orchids of Sikkim-Himalaya Part 1 King & Pantling 1898 drawing not = Z boninensis; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Dansk Botanisk Arkiv Bind 32 nr 2 Orchids of Thailand VI Neottiideae Seidenfaden 1978 drawing fide; A Revised Handbook to the Flora of Ceylon Vol 2 Dassanayake & Fosberg 1981 drawing fide; Orchids of Kumaun Himalayas Pangtey, Samant and Rawat 1991; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; The Orchids of the Philippines Cootes 2001 photo fide; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002 drawing fide; The Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007 drawing hmm; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009; Flora of China Vol 25 Illustrations Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2010 drawing fide; A review on Spiranthoideae genera in Arunachal Pradesh Bulletin of Arunachal Forest Research 27 (1&2) : 1-33, Rao 2011; Flora Of Thailand Orchidaceae Vol 12 Part 1 Pedersen, Kurzweil, Suddee & Cribb 2011 drawing/photo fide; The Wild Orchids of Hong Kong Barretto, Cribb and Gale 2011 drawing/photo fide; Turczaninowia 16(4):26-46 NEW AND RARE ORCHIDS (ORCHIDACEAE) IN THE FLORA OF CAMBODIA AND LAOS Averyanov 2013 photo fide; LANKESTERIANA 15(1): 7—50. Jeewan Singh Jalal & J. Jayanthi 2015; The Harvard Papers in Botany, Vol. 23, No. 2, 2018, pp. 269–277 Ormerod 2018 Drawing fide;
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