Pleione hookeriana

 
Hooker’s Pleione;
 
Distribution: Nepal to China (SE. Yunnan to N. Guangdong) to Indo-China 
 
 
 
 

 

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Pleione hookeriana from Way to Chopta
Shot in June 2013
Id Credit …

Yes Pleione hookeriana. Can be seen on rocks around the enterance. Of the lower gate of Tumganath temple trail.

 
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Hope this is orchid, please help in Id of this plant photographed from near Chopta on June1.

Yes sir this is Pleione hookeriana.

Just wanted to know something about it so searched and could know that

……it is an epiphytic orchid.

……It has a pseudobulb.

Flower characters are visible in the picture.

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Pleione hookeriana (Lindl.) Rollisson, Cat. (Rollisson) 1875-1876: 39 (1875).

Synonyms:
Coelogyne hookeriana Lindl., Fol. Orchid. 5: 14 (1854).
Coelogyne hookeriana var. brachyglossa Rchb.f., Gard. Chron., III, 1: 833 (1887).
Pleione hookeriana var. brachyglossa (Rchb.f.) Rolfe, Orchid Rev. 11: 291 (1903).
Pleione laotica Kerr, J. Siam Soc., Nat. Hist. Suppl. 9: 235 (1933).

Distribution: Nepal to China (SE. Yunnan to N. Guangdong) to Indo-China

Beautiful orchid but never seen in nature. Thanks for showing.

This pic is from Tungnath area.

We also observed this from Chopta Tungnath Area.

 
 
 
 
 
 

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