Luisia zollingeri Rchb.f. 1863
Photo by © Eric Hunt
Photos by Andre Schuiteman, Dr. E.F. de Vogel and Jaap Vermeulen and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website and Flora Malesiana Vol III
Common Name Zollinger's Luisia [Swiss Orchid Botanist 18 - 1900's] - In China Chang Ye Chai Zi Gu
Flower Size 1/4" [8.5 cm]
Found in the Andaman Islands, Thailand, Malaysia, Yunnan province of China, Vietnam, Borneo, Java and Sumatra on trees in montane forests at elevations of sealevel to 1000 meters as a medium to large sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with a mostly pendulous, apically uprising stem carrying, terete, obtuse, channeled above leaves that blooms in the spring on a .4" [1 cm] long, several flowered inflorescence with very short rounded floral bracts.
Synonyms Luisia brachystachys Blume 1849?; Luisia latilabris Rolfe ex Downie 1925; Luisia latipetala J.J.Sm. 1910; Luisia zollingeri var. latipetala (J.J.Sm.) Sulist. 1988;
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959 as L latilabris drawing good/photo ok; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Indian Orchids: A Guide to Identification and Culture Vol 2 Pradhan 1979 as L brachystachya drawing fide; Opera Botanica #95 Seidenfaden 1988 drawing/photo fide; Orchids of Java Comber 1990; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Wood & Seidenfaden 1992 drawing/photo fide; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Identification of the Orchids [Orchidaceae Juss.] Vietnam Averyanov 1994; The Wild Orchids of China Tsi, Chen & Mori 1997; Lindleyana Vol 15 No 4 2000; A field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2001 photo ok; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001; A to Z of South East Asian Orchid Species Vol 1 O'Byrne 2001 photo fide; A field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2005 photo ok; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009; Flora of China Vol 25 Illustrations Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2010 drawing fide; Turczaninowia 19 (3): 5–58 L. V. Averyanov, Khang Sinh Nguyen etal 2016 ; Atlas of Native Orchids of China Vol 2 Jin Xiaohua, Li Jianwu and Ye Deping 2019 photo fide;
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