!Thelasis obtusa Bl. 1825 SUBGENUS Thelasis
Photo by © Peter O'Byrne
Drawing by J.J.Smith and the Orchid Foundation at the Herbarium Jany Renz
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Common Name The Obtuse Thelasis
Flower Size .08" [2mm]
Found in Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Lesser Sunda Islands and the Philippines at elevations of 600 to 1500 meters as a small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with more or less globose easily visible pseudobulbs partially enveloped at the sides by smaller leaves and carrying a single thick, fleshy, v-shaped in cross-section in the basal half leaf that blooms in the later spring on an erect, arsing from the basal leaf sheath axis, green, to 8.8" [22 cm] long, elongating, densely successively many flowered inflorescence with only a few flowers open at any one time
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen Von Java J.J.Smith 1905; Die Orchideen Von Java Figuren Atlas J.J.Smith 1908 drawing fide; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915 photo ok; Orchids of Java Comber 1990 photo ok; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001 photo fide; A to Z of South East Asian Orchid Species Vol 1 O'Byrne 2001 photo fide;
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