Tainia speciosa Blume 1825
Plant and Flowers in situ Cameron Highlands Malaysia Photo by © David Kuehn.
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Common Name The Outstanding Tainia
Flower Size 4" [10 cm]
Found in Thailand, penninsular Malaysia, Java, Sumatra and Borneo as a small sized, hot to cool growing terrestrial with glossy, rectangular, sheathed pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, plicate, petiolate, fleshy, ovate-lanceolate leaf that blooms on an erect, basal, 18" [45 cm] long, several [4 to 12] flowered inflorescence occuring in the fall and winter.
Synonyms Eria speciosa (Blume) Rchb.f. 1861; Mitopetalum speciosum (Blume) Blume 1828
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Java Comber 1990; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2002
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