Taeniophyllum obtusum Blume 1825 Photo courtesy of © Art Vogel

Plant and Flowers Photo by © Amos Tan and His Asiatic Green Orchid Website

Plant Photo courtesy of Donald Tan and his Orchid Website

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Common Name The Blunt Taeniophyllum

Flower Size .22" [5.5mm]

Found in SC China, Malaysia, Cambodia, Thailand, Borneo, Java, Sumatra and Vietnam in swampy primary montane forests on mangrove and coffee plants at elevations of 150 to 1600 meters as a small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with creeping, radiating, flattened roots that blooms on a sessile, .4" [1 cm] long, fractiflex rachis, brown-green,covered with tuburcles many successively flowered inflorescence with two ranked, triangular, acute, very concave, warty floral bracts carrying thin, wide open flowers.

Synonyms Taeniophyllum serrula Hook.f. 1890; Taeniophyllum vietnamense Tixier & Guillaumin 1962; Taeniophyllum zollingeri Rchb.f.1857,

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Xenia Orchidaceae Rchb.f 1854 as T zollingeri drawing fide; Die Orchideen Von Java J.J.Sm. 1905; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959 drawing fide; Orchids of Java Comber 1990; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2002; AOS Bulletin Vol 72 No 3 2003 photo;

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