Calanthe chloroleuca

Systematics
Domain	Eukaryotes Eukaryotic
Kingdom	Plants Plantae
Division	Vascular plants Tracheophyta
Class	Monocot flowering plants Liliopsida
Order	Asparagales Asparagales
Family	Orchids Orchidaceae
Genus	Calanthe
Species	Calanthe chloroleuca
Scientific name
§Calanthe chloroleuca

Common Name The Greenish-White Calanthe

Flower Size .8 to 1.2" [2 to 3 cm]

Found in Assam India, eastern Himalayas and Nepal on mossy banks and dense forests at elevations of 660 to 3000 meters as a medium sized, warm to cold growing terrestrial with conical-ovoid to cylindric pseudobulbs carrying 2 to 4, elliptic to elliptic-lanceolate, acute, gradually narrowing below into the grooved, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the spring on a terminal, erect, puberulent, peduncle, puberulent, 9.2 to 12" [23 to 30 cm] long, overall 19.8" to 22.8" [27 to 57 cm] long, laxly few to many flowered inflorescence with triangular-lanceolate, acute, adpressed bracts and lanceolate, acute floral bracts and carrying primrose scented flowers.

Synonyms Alismorkis chloroleuca (Lindl.) Kuntze1891; Calanthe galeata Lindl. 1855

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Sikkim-Himalaya Part 1 King & Pantling 1898 drawing fide; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915; The Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002; 100 Sikkim Himalayan Orchids Pradhan 2005 photo fide; The Genus Calanthe Clayton & Cribb 2013 drawing fide to Pantling, ok to photo

CITIES category : Appendix II

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