Threadlike Luisia is a small sized orchid growing on
trees, with an often drooping stems. Stems are 34-90 cm, 4-5 mm in
diameter, internodes 3-4 cm. Leaves are arranged on one side of stem,
14-26 cm x about 3 mm. Flower clusters are erect, arising from lower
part or near base of stem, 1-2 cm, few flowered. Floral bracts are
broadly ovate-triangular, about 2 mm, fleshy. Flowers are slightly
fleshy, whitish, lip dark purple; flower-stalk and ovary about 8 mm.
Dorsal sepal is ovate, about 7 x 3 mm, concave, blunt; lateral sepals
similar to dorsal sepal, about 8 x 3 mm, dorsally carinate and becoming
winged at tip. Petals are linear, 8-11 x 1.5-1.7 mm, blunt; lip about 7
mm, with a distinct boundary between epichile and hypochile; hypochile
lateral lobes about 4 x 4 mm; epichile broadly ovate-triangular, about
4 × 5 mm, above with several papillate longitudinal ridges, tip blunt.
Column is about 4 mm. Threadlike Luisia is found growing on tree trunks
in dense forests. at altitudes of 300-1100 m, in Eastern Himalayas, in
NE India, Yunnan, Bhutan, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam. Flowering:
April-June.
Identification credit: Sushant More
Photographed in Assam.
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