Epigeneium arunachalense A.N.Rao 2009 publ. 2010

SECTION Epigeneium

Drawing/photo by © A N Rao

Common Name The Arunachal Epigeneium [A state in northeastern India]

Flower Size 1.12" [2.8 cm]

Found in Arunachal state of India in subtropical, wet, evergreen forests at elevations around 1200 meters as a miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with a creeping rhizome giving rise to at an acute angle to the rhizome, slanting, fusiform pseudobulbs carrying a single, oblanceolate, copper colored when dried, obtusely notched apically, narrowing at the base into a short, vertically channeled, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on a single, arising adaxially from the base of the leaf, longer than the leaf, provided with 2 to 3 basal, tubular sheathing bracts, single flowered inflorescence carrying reddish brown flowers

Closely related to E chapaense but is distinguished by smaller flowers with 2 small, parallel, auricular lamellae on the disc.

Synonyms Dendrobium deuteroarunachalense J.M.H.Shaw 2014; Dendrobium subansiriense D.Verma & Barbhuiya 2014

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Bull. Arunachal Forest Res. 25: 3 A N Rao 2009 publ. 2010 photo/drawing fide

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