Arachnis hookeriana (Rchb.f.) Rchb.f. 1886 Photo by Myrtle Glen Orchids ©

Common Name or Meaning Hooker's Arachnis [English Botanist 1800's]

Flower Size

Found in Malaysia, Vietnam and Borneo on coastal rocks and scrub at elevations around sealevel as a giant sized, hot growing lithophye or epiphyte with an elongate stem carrying many leaves that blooms in the fall

Synonyms Arachnanthe alba Ridl. 1893; Arachnis alba (Ridl.) Schltr. 1911; Arachnis canniformis (Guillaumin) Tang & F.T.Wang 1951; Renanthera alba (Ridl.) Ridl. 1896; *Renanthera hookeriana Rchb.f. 1862; Stauropsis canniformis Guillaumin 1930

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Xenia Orchidaceae vol 2 Rchb.f 1862 as Renanthera hookeriana drawing; AOS Bulletin Vol 62 No 11 1993 photo; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994;