Tuberolabium woodii Choltco 2006 SECTION Tuberolabium

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Common Name Wood's Tuberolabium [English Kew Scientist SE Asian specialist current]

Flower Size 1/2" [1.25 cm]

Found in the Philippines at elevations around 1000 meters as a miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with divaricate sidelobes and a midlobe lacking a central tooth otherwise very similar to T quisimbingii with an upright, terete stem carrying leathery, narrowly lanceoalte leaves that blooms on a semi-pendulous to horizontal, many flowered inflorescnece carrying fragrant flowers

Synonyms Parapterceras aff quisimbingii [L.O.Wms] J.J.Wood 1990

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; AOS Orchids Vol 75 pg 922 Choltco 12/2006 photo fide; Philippine Native Orchid Species Cootes 2011 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 84 #6 2015 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #1 2016 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #11 2016 photo fide;

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