Tainia penangiana Hook. f. 1890 Photo courtesy of David Kuehn

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Common Name The Penang Tainia [State in Malaysia]

Flower Size .8" [2 cm]

Found in Assam, eastern Himalayas, Lower India, Thailand, Malaysia, China, Vietnam and Taiwanin tropical evergreen forests at eleavtions of 600 to 1400 meters as a medium sized, hot to warm growing, deciduous-leafed terrestrial with ovoid pseudobulbs and a single, plicate, elliptic, acute to acuminate leaf that has a long petiole and blooms on a basal, 2' 6" [75 cm] long, glabrous, bracteate, racemose, 5 to 15 flowered inflorescence carrying a few well spaced, simultaneously opening, fragrant flowers that blooms in the winter.

Synonyms Ania penangiana (Hook.f.) Summerhayes 1939; Ascotainia penangiana Ridl. 1907

References W3 tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2007

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