Phreatia elegans Lindl.

in Gen. Sp. Orch. 63 (1830).

Synonymes

Eria elegans (Lindl.) Rchb.f. in B.Seemann, Fl. Vit.: 301 (1868).

Thelasis elegans (Lindl.) Blume in Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. 2. 187 (1858).

Répartition

Bhoutan, Ceylan, Inde, Sikkim, Tibet.

Inde : Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Kerala, Manipur, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal.

Floraison : J______AS___. Altitude de 1500 à 2000 m.

Description sommaire

Plante épiphyte. Taille de 13 à 19 cm. Feuilles de 1 à 4, de 100-150 × 0-20 mm, elliptiques. Sépale dorsal ovale, de 1-2 × 1-2 mm. Sépales latéraux ovales, de 2-3 × 1-2 mm. Pétales elliptiques, ovales, de 0-2 × 0-1 mm. Labelle entier, oblong, de 0-2 × 0-1 mm.

Bibliographie

Udai C. Pradhan. Indian orchids : Guide II. Udai C. Pradhan. 1979. Page 446. Dessin.

D.M.A. Jayaweera. A revised handbook to the flora of Ceylon. Volume II. A.A. Balkema/Rotterdam. 1981. Page 287. Dessin.

N.R. Pearce & P.J. Cribb. The orchids of Bhutan. Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. 2002. Page 395. Dessin.

S.Z. Lucksom. The orchids of Sikkim and North East Himalaya. S.Z. Lucksom. 2007. Page 588. Photo, dessin.

Dhan Bahadur Gurung. An illustrated guide to the orchids of Bhutan. DSB Publications. 2006. Page 112. Photo.

National Biodiversity Center. A century of new orchid records in Bhutan, 2nd edition. Koeltz. 2021. Page 165. Photo.

André Schuiteman, B. Ramamurthy Kailash & Uttam Babu Shrestha. A checklist of the Orchidaceae of India. Missouri Botanical Garden Press. 2022. Page 163.

Khyanjeet Gogoi. Orchids of Assam, a pictorial guide. Publication Division, Dibrugarh University. 2019. Page 454. Photo.

The wild orchids in Tibet. Tongji University Press. 2023. Page 353. Photo.