Smithsonia viridiflora (Dalzell) C.J.Saldanha 1974
Photo by Jalal & Jayanth
Photo by Dinesh Valke and his Flickr Orchid Website
Another Inflorescence Photo by the Enchanting Kerala Website
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Common Name The Green Flowered Smithsonia
Flower Size .4 to .6" [1 to 1.5 cm]
Found in southwestern India n semi-evergreen and evergreen forests as a miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte with a short stem carrying 2 to 3, lanceolate-elliptic leaves that blooms in the later spring on a 1.2 to 2" [3 to 5 cm] long, from the base of the stem, rachis corymbose-umbellate, to 8 flowered inflorescence with oblong-ovate floral bracts and carrying flowers that have greenish white tepals and a white lip with pink spots.
CAUTION I have no way of verifying this determination so use with caution.
Synonyms Aerides dalzelliana (Santapau) Garay 1972; Gastrochilus dalzellianus (Santapau) Santapau & Kopadia 1963; Gastrochilus viridiflorus (Dalzell) Kuntze 1891; *Micropera viridiflora Dalzell 1851; Saccolabium viridiflorum (Dalzell) Lindl. 1859; Sarcochilus dalzellianus Santapau 1948 publ. 1949; Sarcochilus viridiflorus (Dalzell) T.Cooke 1907
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Indian Orchids, A Guide to Identification and Culture Vol 2 Pradhan 1979 as Loxoma viridiflora; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 19/20 1129 - 1264 Brieger 1988 drawing good; The Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007; Lankesteriana Vol 18 [1]: 23–62 Jalal & Jayanth 2018 photo fide; W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
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