| Rock-Dwelling Pleione |
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Botanical name: Pleione saxicola Family: Orchidaceae (Orchid family)
Rock-Dwelling Pleione is a small sized, rock-dwelling
orchid with top-shaped to ovoid pseudobulbs with a persisitent, short,
apical annulus carrying 1-2, almost oblong, lanceshaped or
inverted-lanceshaped, pointed to blunt, elongate stalked base leaves.
The plant blooms in the fall on a single flowered inflorescence with
warty basal bracts and an inverted-lanceshaped, pointed floral bract
and carrying a flower that does not open well. Flower is solitary,
large, up to 10 cm in diameter, rose-red with a white base and a yellow
or white callus on lip. Sepals are fused in basal half and forming a
tube; dorsal sepal inverted-lanceshaped, about 63 x 8 mm, tip pointed;
lateral sepals slightly oblique, slightly wider at base than dorsal
sepal, tip pointed. Petals are inverted-lanceshaped, slightly shorter
and narrower than sepals, tip pointed. Lip is broadly elliptic, about
5.5 x 2.2-2.5 cm, base wedge-shaped and with a claw about 1.3 cm,
distinctly 3-lobed above middle. Rock-Dwelling Pleione is found in E.
Bhutan to NE India, China, at altitudes of 2400-2500 m. Flowering:
September-October.
| Identification credit: Jambey Tsering | Photographed in Namdapha National Park, Arunachal Pradesh. |
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