Odontochilus elwesii

 Odontochilus elwesii C.B.Clarke ex Hook.f., Fl. Brit. India [J. D. Hooker] 6(17): 100 (1890).

Odontochilus elwesii C.B.Clarke ex Hook.f., Photo by Hoang  Thanh Son

its native range is Central Himalaya to S. China and Indo-China, Taiwan.

Latin Name: 

Odontochilus elwesii C.B.Clarke ex Hook.f.

Family: 

Orchidaceae Juss.

Synonym:

Anoectochilus daoensis Gagnep.

Anoectochilus elwesii (C.B.Clarke ex Hook.f.) King & Pantl.

Anoectochilus purpureus (C.S.Leou) S.S.Ying

Cystopus elwesii (C.B.Clarke ex Hook.f.) Kuntze

Odontochilus purpureus C.S.Leou

Vietnamese  name:

Giải thùy tím.

English Name:

Elwes' Anoectochilus (English Plant Collector in South Asia, India and South America 1800's)

Chinese  name:

Xi Nan Chi Chun Lan - 西南齿唇兰 xi.

Thailand name:

Nok khum phu

Description: 

With stout, glabrous, decumbent at the base stems carrying 4 to 7, ovate, acute, 3 veined, hyaline margined, brown, expanded at the petiolate base leaves that blooms in the summer on an erect, 6 to 10 cm long, racemose, glandular-pubescent, 2 to 3 flowered inflorescence with distant, lanceolate, acuminate sheaths and ovate, much shorter than the ovary, outer surface pubescent, mucronate apically floral bracts.

Distribution:

Assam, China South-Central, China Southeast, East Himalaya, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Taiwan, Thailand, Tibet, Vietnam (Lào Cai, Điện Biên, Vĩ nh Phú).

Ecological:

In damp locations within evergreen broad-leaved hill forests, bamboo forests and valleys at elevations of 300 to 1600 m as a miniature to small sized, hot to cool growing terrestrial orchid.

Flowering times:

Blooms in the summer.

Flower size:

1 cm.

Cultivation:

Plants are usually grown in intermediate to warm conditions. Keep plants in a shady area. Pot with a well drain medium composed of sand, fir bark, perlite, and soil. Plants should be watered when potting medium dries.

Typus:

Prain, D. [17], India K000387709 Unknown type material

Clarke, C.B. [44609], India K000387638 Unknown type material

Clarke, C.B. [12251], India K000387710 Unknown type material

Reference: 

theplantlist.org

https://www.ipni.org/n/646355-1

http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:646355-1

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

http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=200028771

https://orchids.fandom.com/wiki/Anoectochilus

https://thuocdongduoc.vn/chi-anoectochilus-blume