Phreatia crassifolia Ridl. 1909

Plant and flowers in situ Cameron Highlands Malaysia Photos by © David Kuehn

Common Name The Thick Leafed Phreatia

Flower Size .1" [2.5mm]

Found in penninsular Malaysia in mossy upper montane forests in exposed locations as a miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with no pseudobulbs and a fan of conduplicate, fleshy, thick, strap shaped, curved, acute leaves that blooms on an axillary, .8" [2 cm] long, several flowered, racemose inflorescence

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Woods 1992 drawing good

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