Accession Data

Orchidantha chinensis

Family: Lowiaceae

Country of Origin: China (Guangdong, Guangxi)

Accession Data

Accession #: 201900224

Accession Date: 2019-07-10 00:00:00

Bloom Status: 🪴 Not Flowering

Location: 1209

Quantity: 1

Source: Kress Collection, SI#1997035

Provenance:

Kress# 97-5759
Kress, W. J., Gallagher, N. L.
China: Guangdong: Yangchun

Shoots to 50 cm in height , leaves green.  
Inflorescence on basal shoot; bracts green (sometimes maroon); ovary green; sepals deep maroon with green inside; lateral petals dark maroon; labellum dark maroon, often with yellow apex; 
Kwangan: Changtun Power Station; Yun Wu Shan mountain range.
22.3994, 111.6592, 14 Mar 1997

Classification

Division: Magnoliophyta

Class: Liliopsida

Subclass: commelinids

Order: Zingiberales

Family: Lowiaceae

Flowering Data:

This accession has been observed in bloom on:
Year Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
2025
2024
2023
2022
2021

References

  1. The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Last accessed on Thursday, 02 May, 2019.
  2. WCSP (2019). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Last accessed on Thursday, 02 May, 2019.
  3. Image #00 (cropped) & #01 (original) used with the permission of the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, 10th and Constitution Ave. N.W., Washington, DC 20560-0193. Last accessed on Wednesday, 17 July, 2019.

Images

Orchidantha chinensis
Orchidantha chinensis