Papilionanthe biswasiana (Ghose & Mukerjee) Garay, Bot.

Ormerod, Paul, Kurzweil, Hubert & Watthana, Santi, 2021, Annotated List of Orchidaceae for Myanmar, Phytotaxa 481 (1), pp. 1-262 : 186

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Papilionanthe biswasiana (Ghose & Mukerjee) Garay, Bot. View in CoL Mus . Leafl. 23: 371, 1974

Basionym: Aerides biswasiana Ghose & Mukerjee, Orchid Rev. View in CoL 53: 124, 1945. Type :— MYANMAR. Shan State: comm. & imp. s.n. (holotype: Lloyd Bot. Gard. Darjeeling) .

Specimens examined:— KACHIN. Putao District : fide Aung et al. (2020: 94) . CHIN. Mindat District : 1950 m, 31 Mar 1956, Kingdon-Ward 21903 ( BM) . SHAN. Unspecified : type .

Distribution:— Myanmar, Thailand and southwestern China.

Notes:— Distinguished from P. vandarum (Rchb.f.) Garay by its lilac flowers and obliquely, broadly subspathulate petals, but otherwise similar.