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Calanthe pulchra is a species of orchid.
It is found in Laos, Thailand, Borneo, Java, Malaysia, the Philippines and Sumatra in humid forests at elevations of 130 to 1700 meters. It is medium to large sized, hot to warm growing terrestrial with close set, small pseudobulbs enveloped by leaf sheaths and carrying 5 to 6, elliptic, acuminate, plicate, gradually narrowing below into the elongate petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on a 20 to 24" [50 to 60 cm] long, erect, densely 40 to 60 flowered, racemose inflorescence with large, lanceolate, acute, very concave floral bracts that fall before the odorless flowers open
Calanthe cardioglossa · Calanthe delavayi · Calanthe densiflora · Common Calanthe · Calanthe fargesii · Calanthe henryi · Calanthe hirsuta · Calanthe odora · Calanthe plantaginea · Calanthe rubens · Halla Striata Calanthe · Calanthe sylvatica
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Calanthe pulchra by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
