Disperis neilgherrensis Wight, Icon. Pl. Ind. Orient.

Ormerod, Paul, Kurzweil, Hubert & Watthana, Santi, 2021, Annotated List of Orchidaceae for Myanmar, Phytotaxa 481 (1), pp. 1-262 : 126

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/phytotaxa.481.1.1

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scientific name

Disperis neilgherrensis Wight, Icon. Pl. Ind. Orient.
status

 

Disperis neilgherrensis Wight, Icon. Pl. Ind. Orient. View in CoL 5: t. 1719, 1851

Homotypic synonym: Disperis zeylanica var. neilgherrensis (Wight) Pradhan [as nilgirensis], Indian Orchids: Guide Identif. & Cult.: 42, 1976, nom. illeg.

Specimen examined:— SHAN. Taunggyi District : 1375 m, 19 Aug 2018, Kim s.n., photo .

Distribution:— Sri Lanka, southern and northeastern India, eastern Myanmar, Thailand, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, the Caroline Island Palau, the Philippines, Java, Flores, Moluccas and New Guinea. It is possible that the species is more widespread, but the plants are easy to overlook because of their frequently small size.

Note:— In the past, plants from different localities have been named, as indicated by the long list of synonyms (not provided here).

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Liliopsida

Order

Asparagales

Family

Orchidaceae

Genus

Disperis

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