Luisia antennifera Blume 1849
Photo by © O'Bryne, Ong, Yong and Saw
Drawing by © Rchb.f
Common Name The Antenna Carrying Luisia
Flower Size .08 x .04" [2 x 1 mm]
Found in Thailand, Malayasia, Vietnam, Java, Sumatra and Borneo at elevations of 250 to 1100 meters as a large sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with a terete, rigid, dark green, more or less violet flushed stem carrying several, terete, shallowly furrowed, dark green, violet flushed leaves that blooms on a short, adpressed to the stem, several to many flowered inflorescence with spreading, shortly trilobed, obtuse, concave floral bracts.
CAUTION This species in general is a conundrum as references are inconsistent in the shape and form of the flower, but this drawing is the type so it is absolutely correct! Peter's photo seems to fit quite well.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Malaya Vol 1 Holttum 1957; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Opera Botanica #95 Seidenfaden 1988 Drawing fide; Orchids of Java Comber 1990; Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Wood 1992 drawing fide; Identification of the Orchids [Orchidaceae Juss.] Vietnam Averyanov 1994; A Checklist to the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001; Orchids of Sarawak Beeman & Wood 2001 photo not; Wild Orchids of The Cameron Highlands REACH 2009 photo hmm; Wild Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia Ong, O'Byrne, Yong & Saw 2011 photo fide
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