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Nervilia fordii - Habit - Click to enlarge!

Habit; Naban River Watershed National Nature Reserve, Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, P.R. China; 10/2009 © Jingxin Liu

Nervilia fordii - Lower surface of leaf and tuber - Click to enlarge!

Lower surface of leaf and tuber; Naban River Watershed National Nature Reserve, Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, P.R. China; 10/2009 © Jingxin Liu

Dataset

Internal reference: 1440
Date of entry: 15.11.2010
Last update: 06.07.2014

Common name

Mandarin: 毛唇芋兰 (mao chun yu lan)

Classification

Kingdom: Plantae (2509)

  Phylum: Magnoliophyta (2408)

    Class: Liliopsida (370)

      Order: Orchidales (26)

        Family: Orchidaceae (26) (family description)

          Genus: Nervilia (1)

           Epithet: fordii Schltr. (1)

Synonym: Pogonia fordii Hance

fordii => in honor of Charles Ford (1844-1927), British botanist and plant collector in China

Characteristics

Climate: tropical

Habit: herb

External links

Check for Nervilia fordii at World Flora Online, GBIF or IPNI

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