Calanthe masuca (D.Don) Lindl.

 Calanthe masuca (D.Don) Lindl., Gen. Sp. Orchid. Pl. 249 1833.

Calanthe masuca (D.Don) Lindl., Photo by The Orchids of the Sikkim-Himalaya by Naresh Swami

Family:

Orchidaceae.

Synonym Name: 

Amblyglottis emarginata Blume

Bletia masuca D.Don

Calanthe albolongicalcarata S.S.Ying

Calanthe curtisii Rchb.f.

Calanthe dipteryx Rchb.f.

Calanthe emarginata (Blume) Lindl.

Calanthe fulgens Lindl.

Calanthe furcata f. masuca (D.Don) M.Hiroe

Calanthe furcata f. textorii (Miq.) M.Hiroe

Calanthe kintaroi Yamam.

Calanthe longicalcarata Hayata ex Yamam.

Calanthe masuca f. albiflora (Ida) K.Nakaj.

Calanthe masuca var. purpurea (Lindl.) A.N.Rao & S.R.Rathore

Calanthe pleiochroma Rchb.f.

Calanthe purpurea Lindl.

Calanthe seikooensis Yamam.

Calanthe textorii Miq.

Calanthe textorii f. albiflora (Ida) Hatus.

Calanthe textorii var. longicalcarata (Hayata ex Yamam.) Garay & H.R.Sweet

Calanthe versicolor Lindl.

Calanthe violacea Rolfe

Calanthe wightii Rchb.f.

Zoduba masuca Buch.-Ham. ex D.Don

Calanthe masuca (D.Don) Lindl. blooms in the month of June/July. (This photographic evidence is part of a research program to re-document all the orchid species described by Sir George King and Robert Pantling in their monumental work, “The Orchids of the Sikkim-Himalaya” published in the year 1898, from their natural habitats.)

VietNam Name:

Kiều lan

China Name:

长距虾脊兰

Description:

Narrowly conical pseudobulbs and several, plicate, broadly elliptic, acute, narrowing below into the petiolate or sessile base leaves that blooms in the late summmer and early fall on an erect, 12.5 to 15 cm long, successively several to many 10 - 15 flowered inflorescence.

Distribution:

Assam, Borneo, China South-Central, China Southeast, East Himalaya, India, Japan, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Madagascar, Malaya, Myanmar, Nansei-shoto, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Taiwan, Thailand, Tibet, Vietnam (Lâm Đồng, Đà Lạt, Bảo Lộc).

Ecological:

Forests at elevations of 450 to 1600 m