Tainia elmeri Ames 1912 Photo courtesy of Fred Williams ©

Common Name Elmer's Tainia [American Orchid Collector and Botanist in the Philippines early to mid 1900's]

Flower Size

Found in the Philippines on Luzon Island at elevations of sealevel to 1300 meters as a small to medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with slender, pear-shaped pseudobulbs carrying, apical, thin, oblong-lanceolate, sleder petiolate base leaves that blooms on an erect, 26" [to 65 cm] long, loosely few flowered, racemose inflorescence.

Synonyms Ania elmeri (Ames) Hawkens ex Senghas 1984; Ascotainia elmeri (Ames) Ames 1915

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidiana Philipiniana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003;

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