Thecopus maingayi (Hook.f.) Seidenf., 1983 publ. 1984

Inflorescence Photos by Manorot Tangsaveepha Copyright ©, and the Butterfly and Orchids Photo Gallery

Common Name Maingay's Thecopus [English Surgeon and Orchid Enthusiast Moluccas 1800's]

Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]

Found in Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam and Borneo at elevations of 600 to 700 meters as a small sized, hot growing epiphyte on trees on steep granite slope of stream valley with flattened pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, narrowly elliptic to oblong-elliptic leaves and blooms in the fall on a 5" [12.5 cm] long, 10 flowered inflorescence

Synonyms *Thecostele maingayi Hook.f. 1890; Thecostele quinquefida Hook.f. 1890

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Malaya Vol 1 Holttum 1953 as Thecostele maingayii; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Wood 1992; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994 ;