Didymoplexis vietnamica Ormerod 2000Photo by © Leonid Averyanov and The Vietnam Forest Creatures Website

LATE EARLIER

Common Name or Meaning The Vietnam Didymoplexis

Flower Size .6 to .88" [1.5 to 2.2 cm]

Found in Guangxi and Vietnam in primary and secondary closed evergreen forests on limestone at elevations of 300-600 meters as a mini-miniature to small sized, hot to warm growing mycoheterotrophic terrestrial with dark gray to dull purple stems carrying 1 to 3 bracts and a few densely arranged, successively opening flowers with ovcate, acute floral bracts occuring in the late winter and earlier spring. .

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 41 pg 2565 - 2625 Brieger 2001; Turczaninowia 2011, 14(2) : 15–100 Averyanov 2011 drawing/photo fide

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