Didymoplexis cornuta J.J.Sm. 1900 Drawing by © J J Smith and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name or Meaning The Horned Didymoplexis

Flower Size .32" [8 mm]

Found in Java and Borneo under bamboo at elevations around 225 to 250 meters as a miniature sized, hot growing, mycoheterotrophic terrestrial with orange roots that are sometimes thickened into tubers as well as the rhizome is tuberlike and give rise in the winter to an erect, to [9cm] tall, successively few flowered inflorescence.

Synonyms Didymoplexis cornuta var. betungkerihunensis Tsukaya & H.Okada2012

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen Von Java J J Smith 1905; Die Orchideen Von Java Figueren -Atlas J J Smith 1908 drawing fide; Orchids of Java Comber 1990;

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