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Orchid Species: Collabium chinense

(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)

Collabium chinense is an orchid species identified by (Rolfe) Tang & F.T.Wang in 1977.
Genus
Collabium (Coll.)
Grex
chinense
(name currently accepted by Kew)
Parents
Species
Author
(Rolfe) Tang & F.T.Wang
Year
1977
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ORIGIN: This small sized, hot to cool growing terrestrial is found in south Fujian, south Guangdong, south Guangxi, Hainan, southeastern Xizang, and southeastern Yunnan provinces of China, Hong Kong, Laos and Taiwan in dense forests or along valleys in damp rocky areas at elevations of 400 to 2000 meters.

DESCRIPTION: This small sized, hot to cool growing terrestrial is found in south Fujian, south Guangdong, south Guangxi, Hainan, southeastern Xizang, and southeastern Yunnan provinces of China, Hong Kong, Laos and Taiwan in dense forests or along valleys in damp rocky areas at elevations of 400 to 2000 meters with well spaced, petiole like, terete pseudobulb with a long tubular sheath and carrying a single, ovate to oblong-lanceolate, thickly chartaceous, undulate margins, gradually narrowing below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer on an erect, basal, terminal, racemose, laxly 4 to 9 flowered inflorescence with large showy flowers.

FLOWER SIZE: 0.8 inches [2 cm] -- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
Other Names
Genus Name Genus Grex Name Year Author
Add+ Chrysoglossum Cgm robinsonii 1915 Ridl.
Add+ Collabium Coll balansae 1951 (Gagnep.) Tang & F.T.Wang
Add+ Collabium Coll uraiense 1934 Fukuy.
Add+ Collabiopsis Collabiopsis chinensis 1990 (Rolfe) S.S.Ying
Add+ Tainia Tai balansae 1932 Gagnep.
Add+ Tainia Tai chinensis 1932 (Rolfe) Gagnep.
Add+ Nephelaphyllum Nep chinense 1896 Rolfe
Add+ Collabiopsis Collabiopsis uraiensis 1977 (Fukuy.) S.S.Ying
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