Taeniophyllum obtusum Blume 1825

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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 primary montane forests on 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 ; Orchids of Java Comber 1990; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2002

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