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A genus of 23 epiphytic monopodial species distributed from India through southern China and Southeast Asia to Queensland, Schoenorchis occurs in montane forests. Plants are small to large, with erect or pendulous branching stems rooting at the base. Leaves are terete or flat, lanceolate and coriaceous. Inflorescence is simple or branched, with numerous small flowers, a few millimetres across, in white, pink or mauve. Tepals are not widely spread. Lip is saccate, spurred.
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Teoh, E.S. (2022). Schoenorchis Reinw. ex Bl.. In: Orchid Species from Himalaya and Southeast Asia Vol. 3 (R - Z). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-97630-9_6
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