Pleione hookeriana

Common Name - Hooker's Pleione [Director of Kew- English Orchid botanist 1800's]

Pleione hookeriana Orchid is found from Nepal to south China as a small sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte, lithophyte or terrestrial, deciduous species in rhododendron forests on mossy branches and tree trunks or on the forest floor at elevations of 1800 to 4200 meters with conical pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, persistent, elliptic-lanceolate, acute leaf that tapers gradually to the base that blooms as the new growths are appearing in the mid-spring on a slender, sheathed, 4 3/4" [12 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence with tubular, obliquely truncate, obtuse floral bract.

Synonyms

*Coelogyne hookeriana Lindl. 1854; Coelogyne hookeriana var. brachyglossa Rchb.f. 1887; Coelogyne schilleriana Rchb. f. 1858; Pleione hookeriana var. brachyglossa (Rchb.f.) Karth. 1989; Pleione laotica Kerr 1933; Pleione schilleriana (Rchb. f.) Kuntze 1891