Pleione humilis

Common Name - The Ground Growing Pleione

Pleione humilis Orchid is found from Nepal to Sikkim at elevations of 1100 to 3500 meters growing on moss or the smooth trunks of rhododendron trees as a small sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial or epiphyte with ovoid-conical pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, deciduous, oblanceolate, subacute leaf that blooms in the fall and winter on a basal, 3 to 5" [7.5 to 12.5 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence enveloped by a green sheath with a slightly fragrant, color variable flower.

Synonyms

Coelogyne humilis Lindl. 1821; Coelogyne humilis var. albata Rchb.f. 1888; Coelogyne humilis var. tricolor Rchb.f. 1880; Cymbidium humile Sm. ex Lindl. 1821; Dendrobium humile (Sm.) Sm. in A.Rees 1808; *Epidendrum humile Sm. 1806; Pleione diantha Schltr. 1915; Pleione humilis var. adnata Pfitzer 1907; Pleione humilis var. purpurascens Pfitzer 1907