Pleione praecox (Sm.) D.Don, Prodr. Fl.

Ormerod, Paul, Kurzweil, Hubert & Watthana, Santi, 2021, Annotated List of Orchidaceae for Myanmar, Phytotaxa 481 (1), pp. 1-262 : 210

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Pleione praecox (Sm.) D.Don, Prodr. Fl. View in CoL Nepal.: 37, 1825

Basionym: Epidendrum praecox Sm., Exot. Bot. View in CoL 2: 73, 1805.

Homotypic synonym: Coelogyne praecox (Sm.) Lindl., Coll. Bot. View in CoL : t. 37, 1826.

Heterotypic synonyms: Coelogyne reichenbachiana T.Moore & H.J.Veitch, Gard. Chron. 1868: 1210, 1868 . Pleione reichenbachiana (T.Moore & H.J.Veitch) H.J.Veitch, Man. Orch. Pl. 6: 53, 1890. Type:— MYANMAR. Mon State: Mawlamyine District, Benson s.n. (holotype: not located).

Coelogyne birmanica Rchb. f., Gard. Chron., n.s., 18: 840, 1882. Pleione birmanica (Rchb.f.) Stein, Orchid.-Buch: 521, 1892. Pleione praecox (Sm.) D.Don var. birmanica (Rchb.f.) B.Grant, Orch. Burma: 167, 1895. Type:— MYANMAR. Without locality: Boxall s.n. (holotype: W-R; icon. W-R 48752).

Pleione praecox (Sm.) D.Don var. alba E.W.Cooper, Roy. Hort. Soc. Dict. Gard. : 1606, 1951.

Specimens examined:— KACHIN. Putao District : 1830 m, 10 Nov 1922, Kingdon-Ward 5531 ( E), det. P . F . Hunt ; same loc., 1830 m, 22 Oct 1953, Kingdon-Ward 21508 ( BM), fide Cribb & Butterfield (1999: 158); same loc., 2820 m, 9 Nov 1953, Kingdon-Ward 21582 ( BM), det. P . F . Hunt, ident. uncertain [almost finished flowering]; same loc., 2065 m, 18 Oct 2016, Armstrong et al. 1910 ( NY, SING); Myitkyina District : 2135−2440 m, Nov 1922, Rock 7512 ( AMES) . CHIN. District not traced: 1950 m, comm. 9 Oct 1923, Daun 61 ( K); Falam District : 2010 m, Oct 1910, Venning 63 ( K); Mindat District : 1450 m, 23 Oct 1956, cult. ex Kingdon-Ward 22739 ( BM), det. P . F. Hunt; same loc., cult. Goteborg Bot. Gard. ex Alsterlund s.n. (GB?, not located) ; same loc., 2500 m, 7 Dec 2002, Murata et al. 025646 ( MBK); same loc., 14 Oct 2008, Yasuda 060013 ( MBK); same loc., 2285 m, 13 Nov 2011, Ling Shein Man 087819 ( MBK) . BAGO. Taungoo District : 2135−2440 m, Parish 213 (not located), fide Parish (1883: 195; as Coelogyne praecox ) . MON. Mawlamyine District: type; same loc., Parish 72 (not located), fide Parish (1883: 195; as C. reichenbachiana ); same loc., Parish s.n. ( K). WITHOUT LOCALITY. Type.

Distribution:— Northern India, the Himalayas, Myanmar, Thailand, Indochina and southwestern China.

References

Parish, C. S. P. (1883) Order Orchideae. In: Mason, F. (Ed.) Burma, its people and productions, vol. 2. Botany. Austin & Sons, Hertford, pp. 148 - 203.

Abbreviations

E	Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
P	Museum National d' Histoire Naturelle, Paris (MNHN) - Vascular Plants
F	Field Museum of Natural History, Botany Department
BM	Bristol Museum
NY	William and Lynda Steere Herbarium of the New York Botanical Garden
SING	Singapore Botanic Gardens
AMES	Harvard University - Oakes Ames Orchid Herbarium
K	Royal Botanic Gardens
MBK	Makino Botanical Garden