Renanthera citrina Aver. 1997 Photos by © Stefan Paeffgen
Photo by David Jubineau and His Bulbophyllum Pages Copyright ©
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Common Name The Lemon Yellow Renanthera [refers to the flowers color] - In China Zhong Hua Huo Yan Lan
Flower Size 2.4" [6 cm]
Found in Yunnan province of China and Vietnam in humid, mossy, mixed and coniferous forests on lower mossy trunks of old gnarled trees at elevations of 650 to 1200 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte or occasional lithophyte on mossy rock bluffs with a pendulous and ascending, short, woody stem carrying lanceolate to narrowly lanceolate, rigid, leathery, curved, unequally bilobed apically, sessile, articulated leaves that blooms in the spring on an erect to inclined, racemose to 2 branched, to 18" [45 cm] long, simultaneously to 25 flowered inflorescence with small triangular floral bracts and odorless flowers.
Synonyms Renanthera sinica Z.J.Liu & S.C.Chen 2003
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *AOS Bulletin Vol 66 No 12 1997 photo; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 42 - 43 pg 2626 - 2762 Brieger 2001; Lindleyana Vol 15 No 4 2000; AOS Bulletin Vol 73 No 7 2004 photo fide; A Field Guide to the Orchids of China Singchi, Zhongjian, Yibo, Xiaohua and Zhanhuo 2009 photo fide; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009; The Wild Orchids in Yunnan Xu Xiang Ye & Liu 2010 photos fide; A to Z of South East Asian Orchid Species Vol 2 O'Byrne 2011 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #5 2016 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 86 #6 2017 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 88 #3 2019 photo fide; Atlas of Native Orchids of China Vol 2 Jin Xiaohua, Li Jianwu and Ye Deping 2019 photo fide;
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