Common Name The Terete leaf Luisis
Flower Size 3/4" [2 cm]
Found in the Chinese Himalayas, Assam India, India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, eastern Himalayas, Nepal, western Himalayas, Andaman Islands, Myanamar, Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam, Java, Lesser Sunda Islands, Moluccas, the Philippines, New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Northern Territory and Queensland Australia, Fiji, New Caledonia Samoa, Marianas, Vanuatu and Guam as a small sized, cool to hot growing epiphytic orchid found on exposed trees at altitudes of 100 to 900 meters with a rigid, stout, terete, noded, monopodial stem carrying alternate, fleshy, terete, obtuse leaves that blooms in the winter and possibly at other times on an axillary, less than 1 1/2" [4 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence with a cluster of 3 to 10 small, faintly foul smelling, waxy, long-lived flowers all opening simultaneously. This species has a kidney-shaped epichile and the apex is broadly rounded and has a quadrangular hypochile and the petals are strap shaped.
Synonyms Cymbidium tenuifolium Wight 1852; Cymbidium triste [Forst.] Roxb. 1832; Epidendrum triste G. Forst. 1786; Luisia beccarii Rchb.f 1886; Luisia brachystachys Bl. var flaviola Par & Rchb.f ?; Luisia burmanica Lindl. 1853; Luisia macrocarpa Schltr. 1921; Luisia occidentalis Lindl. 1853; Luisia platyglossa Rchb.f 1863; Luisia tristis [Forst.] O.Ktze. 1890; Luisia truncata Blatt. & McCann 1932; Luisia valida Rchb.f. 1862; Luisia zeylandica Lindley 1853; Trichorhiza teretifolia (Gaudich.) Lindl. ex Steud. 1841
