Pleione praecox (Sm.) Don

in Prodr. Fl. Nepal. 37 (1825).

Synonymes

Coelogyne birmanica Rchb.f. in Gard. Chron. 2: 840 (1882).

Coelogyne × lagenaria (Lindl.) Lindl. in Fol. Orchid. Coelog. 15

Coelogyne praecox (Sm.) Lindl. in Coll. Bot.:Sub. T. 37 (1821).

Coelogyne reichenbachiana T.Moore & Veitch in Gard. Chron.: 1210 (1868).

Coelogyne wallichiana Lindl. in Gen. Sp. Orch. Pl. 43 (1830).

Coelogyne wallichii Hooker in Bot. Mag.:T. 4496 (1850).

Cymbidium praecox (Sm.) Lindl. in Coll. Bot (1825).

Cymbidium praecox (Sm.) Lindl. in Coll. Bot.: t. 37 (1826).

Dendrobium praecox (Sm.) Sm. in A.Rees, Cycl. 11: n.º 3 (1808).

Epidendrum praecox Sm. in Exot. Bot. 2: 73. T. 97 (1806). (basionyme)

Pleione birmanica (Rchb.f.) B.S.Williams in Orch. Grow. Man. Ed. 7 (1894).

Pleione concolor B.S.Williams in Orch. Grow. Man. Ed. 7: 681 (1894).

Pleione × lagenaria Lindl. & Paxton in Flow. Gard. 2. 5 (1851).

Pleione reichenbachiana (T.Moore & Veitch) B.S.Williams in Orch. Grow. Man. Ed. 4: 252 (1871).

Pleione reichenbachiana (T.Moore & Veitch) Kuntze in Rev. Gen. 680 (1891).

Pleione wallichiana (Lindl.) Lindl. in Paxt. Flow. Gard. 1: 66 (1851).

Pleione wallichiana Lindl. & Paxton in Flow. Gard. 2. 66 (1851).

Répartition

Bhoutan, Birmanie, Chine, Inde, Laos, Népal, Sikkim, Thaïlande, Tibet, Vietnam.

Chine : Yunnan.

Inde : Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal.

Floraison : ________SON_. Altitude de 1200 à 3400 m.

Description sommaire

Plante terrestre, épiphyte. Taille de 10 à 30 cm. 2 feuilles, de 105-210 × 47-50 mm, elliptiques, oblongues, pétiolées. Fleurs de 1 à 2, roses. Sépale dorsal lancéolé, oblong, de 46-70 × 7-11 mm. Sépales latéraux lancéolés, oblongs, de 47-68 × 9-13 mm. Pétales lancéolés, linéaires, de 50-70 × 5-6 mm. Labelle ovale, trilobé, de 35-58 × 30-40 mm. Chromosomes : 2n=40.

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