Peristylus parishii

Peristylus parishii Rchb.f., Trans. Linn. Soc. London 30(1): 139 (1874).

Peristylus parishii Rchb.f., Photo by Magnetic Kla Field

Peristylus parishii Rchb.f., Photo by Kurt Keller

its native range is Indian Subcontinent to S. China and Indo-China.

Latin Name: 

Peristylus parishii Rchb.f.

Family: 

Orchidaceae Juss.

Synonym:

Habenaria parishii (Rchb.f.) Hook.f.

Vietnamese name:

Chu thư parish, Nhụy vòng trung.

English Name:

Parish's Peristylus (English Missionary and Plant Collector 1800's).

Chinese name:

Dian Gui Kuo Rui Lan - 滇桂阔蕊兰 

Description: 

With an ellipsoid, pubescent tuber giving rise to a leafy around the middle, bracteate above stems with linear-lanceolate, long acuminate, sheaths and carrying 4 to 5, ovate-elliptic, acute, narrowing below into the short, channeled petiolate base leaves grading above into 2 to 8, spreading to suberect, lanceolate, acuminate, sterile bracts that blooms in the late spring and early summer on a glabrous, 5 to 19 cm long, subdensely to laxly many flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acuminate floral bracts.

Distribution:

Andaman Is., Assam, China South-Central, China Southeast, East Himalaya, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, Vietnam (Thừa Thiên, Huế, Lâm Đồng).

Ecological:

in tropical valleys, broad leaved forests and thickets at elevations of 610 to 1800 m as a medium to large sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial.

Flowering times:

Blooms in the late spring and early summer.

Flower size:

5.0 mm.

Cultivation:

Water: 1 – 2 time daily

Light: bright light

Temperature:  10 - 32°C

Typus:

Parish, C.S.P. [216], Burma K000387508 Unknown type material

Reference: 

theplantlist.org

https://www.ipni.org/n/650266-1

http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:650266-1

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

http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=242444555.

https://thuocdongduoc.vn/chi-peristylus-benth-hook-f-1883