Agrostophyllum callosum

Agrostophyllum callosum Rchb.f., Fl. Vit. [Seemann] 296 (1868).

Agrostophyllum callosum
Agrostophyllum callosum
Agrostophyllum callosum
Agrostophyllum callosum
Agrostophyllum callosum Rchb.f., Photo by Nghiem Xuan Son

its native range is Nepal to Hainan and Indo-China.

Latin Name: 

Agrostophyllum callosum Rchb.f.

Family: 

Orchidaceae Juss.

Synonym:

Agrostophyllum reichenbachii J.J.Sm.

Vietnamese name: 

Xích hủ sần; Lan càng cua thân dài, Xích hủ có chai. 

English Name:

The Callous Bearing Agrostophyllum.

Chinese name:

禾叶兰 - he ye lan.

Description: 

With a branching rhizome giving rise to erect, 30 to 60 cm long, unbranched, slender in the lower half, slightly thickened in the upper half stems carrying many, grasslike, chartaceous, tapering gradually from base to apex, unequally rounded-bilobed apically leaves that blooms in the summer on a terminal, subcapitate, short, densely several to many flowered inflorescence.

Distribution:

Assam, Bangladesh, China South-Central, East Himalaya, Hainan, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, Tibet, Vietnam.

Ecological:

In mixed, broad-leafed forests on rocky humus rich slopes at elevations of 340 to 2400 m as a small to medium sized, hot to cool growing terrestrial or as an epiphyte on forest margins.

Flowering times:

Blooms in the summer.

Flower size:

7.0 mm.

Cultivation:

Typus:

Hooker, J.D. [201], Sikkim K000859644 Unknown type material

Hooker, J.D. [201], Sikkim K000859643 Unknown type materialReference: 

theplantlist.org

https://www.ipni.org/n/615423-1

http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:619056-1

http://www.orchidspecies.com/agrocallosum.htm. 

http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=200028514

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