Peristylus calcaratus (Rolfe) S.Y.Hu 1973

Plant and Inflorescence

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Part shadeHotCoolSummer EARLIERFall

Common Name The Spurred Peristylus - In China Chang Xu Kuo Rui Lan

Flower Size 1.4" [3.5 cm] long

Found in Guangdong, Guangxi, Hunan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, western Yunann and Zhejiang provinces of China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam in forests and grassy slopes at elevations around 200 to 1300 meters as a small to medium sized, hot to cool growing terrestrial with subglobose to oblong-ellipsoid tubers giving rise to an erect stem with 2 to 4 tubular, basal sheaths and carrying 3 to 5, clustered near the base to spread along the stem, elliptic-lanceolate, attenuate basally, acute to obtuse apically leaves that blooms in the summer and earlier fall on an erect, cylindric, slender, 5.2 to 15.2" [13 to 38 cm] long, laxly to subdensely many flowered inflorescence with a few, lanceolate sterile bracts and ovate-lanceolate, shorter than to slightly exceeding the ovary, acuminate apically floral bracts

Synonyms *Glossula calcarata Rolfe 1913; Habenaria calcarata (Rolfe) Schltr. 1919; Habenaria lilungshania S.S.Ying 1992; Platanthera pricei Hayata 1914

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Identification of the Orchids [Orchidaceae Juss.] Vietnam Averyanov 1994; Native Orchids From Gaoligongshan Mountains, China Xiaohua, Xiaodong and Xiaochun 2009 photo fide; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009; Flora of China Vol 25 Illustrations Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2010 drawing fide; The Atlas of Wild Orchids in Hainan Island, China Shenyan and Junmei 2010 photo fide; The Wild Orchids in Yunnan Xu Xiang Ye & Liu 2010 photos fide; The Wild Orchids of Hong Kong Barretto, Cribb and Gale 2011 drawing/photo fide; Atlas of Native Orchids of China Vol 1 Jin Xiaohua, Li Jianwu and Ye Deping 2019 photo fide;

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