Ascochilus nitidus Seidenf. 1975
Plant and Flowers Photos by © Manorot Tangsaveepha and hisButterfly and Orchids Website
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Common Name The Shining Ascochilus
Flower Size
Found in Thailand as a miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with a short stem carrying 4 to 6 leaves that blooms in the late summer and early fall on often simultaneously many, close together, .8 to 1.6" [2 to 4 cm] long, rugose to prickly hairy, elongating as the flowers open, successivly 1 to 2 flowered inflorescence
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Botanisk Tidsskrift Bild 70 Hft 1 Contributions to the flora of Thailand VI Seidenfaden 1975 drawing fide; Opera Botanica #95 seidenfaden1988 drawing fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 19/20 1129 - 1264 Brieger 1988 drawing good;
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