Peristylus carnosipetalus Kurzweil 2010
Photo by © John Varigos and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website
LATE 
EARLY 
Common Name The Fleshy Petaled Peristylus
Flower Size .04” [1mm]
Found in Chang Mai Thailand in grasslands and exposed limestone crevasses at elevations around 1500 to 2000 meters as a miniature sized, cool growing terrestrial with 2 to 3, cauline, scattered along the stem, lanceolate-linear, acute, mucronate leaves grading into none to 3, erect, linear-lanceolate, acuminate sterile bracts leaves that blooms in the late summer and early fall on an erect, glabrous, 3 to 6.4” [7.5 to 16 cm] long, semi-dense to lax, 8 to 20 flowered inflorescence with a 1.2 to 1.8” [3 to 4.5 cm] long, rachis carrying narrowly lanceolate-elliptic to lanceolate, acuminate to acute floral bracts.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Of Thailand Orchidaceae Vol 12 Part 1 Pedersen, Kurzweil, Suddee & Cribb 2011 drawing/photo fide
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