''Phalaenopsis lobbii'', also known as 罗氏蝴蝶兰 (luo shi hu die lan) in Chinese, is a species of

orchid Orchids are plants that belong to the family Orchidaceae (), a diverse and widespread group of flowering plants with blooms that are often colourful and fragrant. Along with the Asteraceae, they are one of the two largest families of flowerin ...

found from the

eastern Himalaya ] The Eastern Himalayas extend from eastern Nepal across Northeast India, Bhutan, the Tibet Autonomous Region to Yunnan in China and northern Myanmar. The climate of this region is influenced by the monsoon of South Asia from June to September. It ...

Indochina Mainland Southeast Asia, also known as the Indochinese Peninsula or Indochina, is the continental portion of Southeast Asia. It lies east of the Indian subcontinent and south of Mainland China and is bordered by the Indian Ocean to the west an ...

.It is named in honour of Cornish plant hunter

Thomas Lobb Thomas Lobb (1817–1894) was a British botanist and, along with his older brother, William Lobb, collected plants for the plant nursery Veitch. Lobb worked in India, Indonesia and the Philippines. In 1845 he discovered the first orchid species ...

. These epiphytic plants have aerial, fleshy, dorsiventrally flattened roots, which radiate from a short stem, which is inclosed by leaf petioles. The stem bears 3-5 slightly fleshy, thin leaves, which are commonly shed in winter. Some plants retain up to two leaves, but most exhibit deciduous leaflessness. Small flowers with reflexed petals of 1.5 cm in diameter are produced between March and May on racemose inflorescences. The midlobe of the labellum shows brown colouration. It is a rare species with extremely small population sizes. It is found in evergreen broad leaved forests on limestone at altitudes of 150–330 m.HUANG, X., LU, Z., BIN, Z., GAN, C., QIN, Q., & DING, L. Community Characteristics of Wild Plant Species with Extremely Small Populations Phalaenopsis lobbii. Chinese Journal of Tropical Crops, 41(7), 1469. Phalaenopsis lobbii (Rchb.f.) H.R.Sweet, Gen. Phalaenopsis 53 (1980) (39946044034).jpg Phalaenopsis lobbii (Rchb.f.) H.R.Sweet, Gen. Phalaenopsis 53 (1980) (39760283225).jpg Phalaenopsis lobbii (Rchb.f.) H.R.Sweet, Gen. Phalaenopsis 53 (1980) (25785005717).jpg Phalaenopsis lobbii Orchi 026.jpg Phalaenopsis lobbii (as Phalaenopsis parishii) - The Orchids of the Sikkim-Himalaya pl 263 (1889).jpg

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