Crepidium calophyllum

 Crepidium calophyllum (Rchb.f.) Szlach., Fragm. Florist. Geobot. Supp. 3: 125 (1995): (1995).

Crepidium calophyllum (Rchb.f.) Szlach., Photo by Kurt Keller

Crepidium calophyllum (Rchb.f.) Szlach., Photo by Tomas Bajza

its native range is E. Nepal to Hainan and Borneo.

Latin Name: 

Crepidium calophyllum (Rchb.f.) Szlach.

Family: 

Orchidaceae Juss.

Synonym:

Epidendrum variegatum J.Koenig

Liparis elegantissima Jacob-Makoy ex T.Moore & Mast.

Malaxis calophylla (Rchb.f.) Kuntze

Malaxis scottii (Hook.f.) Kuntze

Microstylis calophylla Rchb.f.

Microstylis scottii Hook.f.

Vietnamese  name:

Ái lan lá đep.

English Name:

The Beautiful Leaf Malaxis.

Chinese  name:

Mei Ye Shao Lan - 美叶沼兰.

Description: 

With stout, short, erect pseudobulbs carrying 3 to 4, shortly petiolate, oblong-lanceolate, acute, bicolor leaves and blooms in the spring and summer on a 25 cm long, many flowered, densely cylyndrical inflorescence with narrow, linear-setaceous bracts and carrying successively opening, inverted (non-resupinate) flowers.

Distribution:

Bangladesh, Borneo, Cambodia, China South-Central, East Himalaya, Hainan, Malaya, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, Vietnam (Tây Nguyên, Phú Quốc).

Ecological:

In hill forests at elevations around 300 to 1100 m as a small sized, hot to cool growing terrestrial.

Flowering times:

Blooms in the spring and summer.

Flower size:

6.0 mm.

Cultivation:

Typus:

May 16, 2000 Parish, C.S.P. [191], Burma K000387674 Unknown type material

Reference: 

theplantlist.org

https://www.ipni.org/n/988115-1

http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:988115-1

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

http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=250092613

https://thuocdongduoc.vn/chi-malaxis-sw-1788