Calanthe herbacea Lindl.

in Fol. Orch. 10 (1854).

Synonymes

Alismorchis herbacea (Lindl.) Kuntze in Rev. Gen. 650 (1891).

Calanthe erythroglossa Rchb.f. in Hook. F., Fl. Brit. Ind. 5. 853 (1890).

Alismorchis erythroglossa (Rchb.f.) Kuntze in Rev. Gen. 650 (1891).

Répartition

Birmanie, Chine, Inde, Sikkim, Taiwan, Thaïlande, Tibet, Vietnam.

Chine : Guangxi, Yunnan.

Inde : Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Meghalaya, Nagaland, West Bengal.

Floraison : _____JJA____. Altitude de 1330 à 2600 m.

Description sommaire

Plante terrestre. Taille de 50 à 65 cm. Feuilles de 5 à 7, de 150-250 × 50-100 mm, elliptiques, pétiolées. Fleurs de 10 à 20, vertes. Sépale dorsal elliptique, de 16-18 × 5-6 mm. Sépales latéraux elliptiques, de 16-18 × 5-6 mm. Pétales en spatule, de 13-16 × 3-5 mm. Labelle trilobé.

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