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Zeuxine parvifolia (Ridl.) Seidenf. 1978

Plant Photos by © Anon

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Common Name The Small Leaved Zeuxine - In China Bai Hua Xian Zhu Lan

Flower Size .1" [2.5mm]

Found in the Ryukyu Islands, Taiwan, southern China, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Malaysia, New Guinea and the Philippines in damp
shade locales in rocky soils of tropical rain, seasonal evergreen, evergreen hill and mixed deciduous forests and montane slopes at elevations around 40 to 1700
meters as a small sized, hot to cool growing terrestrial with an elongate rhizome giving rise to an erect, pale, purplish brown stem carrying 3 to 6, cauline, widely
spaced, withered or pendulous at blooming, pale green, ovate to elliptic, obtuse to acute, sometimes ciliate margined, narrowing below into the petiolate base
leaves that blooms in the winter through summer on an erect, pubescent, 5 to 10" [12.5 to 25 cm] long, laxly to subdensely 3 to 10+ flowered inflorescence with 2
to 3 sterile bracts and pale red, pubescent abaxially and on the margin, ovate-lanceolate, long acuminate, shorter than the ovary and carrying resupinate,
puberulent flowers.

Synonyms Adenostylis benguetensis Ames 1912; *Hetaeria parvifolia Ridl. 1870; Zeuxine benguetensis (Ames) Ames 1938; Zeuxine boninensis Tuyama 1935;
Zeuxine gracilis var. sakagutii (Tuyama) T.Hashim. 1986; Zeuxine gracilis var. tenuifolia (Tuyama) T.Hashim. 1986; Zeuxine leucochila Schltr. 1906; Zeuxine
sakagutii Tuyama 1936; Zeuxine shuishiehensis S.S. Ying 1989; Zeuxine siamensis Hosseus 1911; Zeuxine tenuifolia Tuyama 1936;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitnand 1959 as Z leucochila drawing fide; Orchids of the
Southern Ryukyu Islands Garay & Sweet 1974 as Z leucochila; Orchid Genera in Thailand Vol VI Seidenfaden 1978 drawing ok; The Orchids of Penninsular

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Mayasia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Wood 1992 drawing ok; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi & Deyuan 2009; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven &
Deyuan 2009; Flora of China Vol 25 Illustrations Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2010 drawing fide; The Wild Orchids in Yunnan Xu Xiang Ye & Liu 2010 photos
fide; Flora Of Thailand Orchidaceae Vol 12 Part 1 Pedersen, Kurzweil, Suddee & Cribb 2011 drawing/photo fide

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