Nervilia fordii (Hance) Schltr.

Nervilia fordii Schltr., Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 45(3): 403 (1911).

Nervilia fordii Schltr. Photo by Chu Xuan Canh

its native range is S. China to N. Indo-China.

Latinh Name: 

Nervilia fordii Schltr.

Synonym:

Nervilia mekongensis S.W.Gale, Schuit. & Suddee

Pogonia fordii Hance

Vietnamese name:

Trân châu trắng, Thanh thiên quỳ trắng.

English Name:

Ford's Nervilia

Chinese name:

Mao Chun Yu Lan - 毛唇芋兰 

Description: 

Warm growing terrestrial orchid with a whitish, globose tuber giving rise to a stalk like, petiolate base leaf that is pale green on both surfaces, cordate-ovate, membraneous, glabrous, about 20 veined, margin undulate and acute that blooms in the later spring on an erect, 13 to 30 cm long, 3 to 5 flowered inflorescence with 3 to 6 tubular sheaths and reflexed, linear, slightly exceeding the ovary floral bracts.

Distribution:

China South-Central, China Southeast, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam (Hoàng Liên Sơn, Sơn La, Hòa Bình).

Ecological:

Shaded damp places in forests; 200-1000 m.

Flowering times:

Blooms in the later spring .

Flower size:

2.5 cm.

Cultivation:

Uses: 

Lungs, cough, detoxification, fever, pain relief (using the whole tree).

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