Schoenorchis minutiflora (Ridl.) J.J.Sm. 1912
Plant and Flowers Photos by © Ricci Zepmeusel
Plant and flowers in situ Cameron Highlands Malaysia Photos by © David Kuehn
Common Name The Small Flowered Schoenorchis
Flower Size .1" [2.5mm]
Found in the Andaman Islands?, Thailand? and Malaysia as a miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with a basally branching stem carrying to 6, fleshy, apically bidentate leaves that blooms in the spring and summer on an erect, slender, strongly compressed, to 10.4" [26 cm] long, 2 to 4 branched, each 4" [10 cm] long, several flowered inflorescence carrying sweet cigar scented flowers,
Synonyms *Saccolabium minutiflorum Ridl.1909
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Opera Botanica #95 Seidenfaden 1988 drawing fide/ photo fide but labeled S gemmata; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Woods 1992 drawing fide; Orchids of Malaya Segerback 1992 photo fide; The Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007; A to Z of South East Asian Orchid Species Vol 2 O'Byrne 2011 photo fide
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