Side View of Flower

Photo by © Holger Perner

Another Flower

Photo by © Eric Hunt, Plant grown by Marni Turkel, shown at the 2 Apr 2002 San Francisco Orchid Society Meeting

Common Name The Honghen Phalaenopsis - In China Hong He Hu Die Lan

Flower Size 1 3/8" [2.9 cm]

Found in Yunnan province of China at elevations of 2000 meters as a miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with warty roots giving rise to a stem carrying 1 to 2, obliquely elliptic, acute, persistent sheathing base leaves that blooms in the spring on a racemose, 3" [7.7cm] long, simple, few [3 to 6] flowered inflorescence with ovate floral bracts and carrying strongly fragrant flowers

SynonymsDoritis honghenensis (F.Y.Liu) T.Yukawa & K.Kita 2005

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Phalaenopsis A Monograph E A Christenson 2001 drawing ok/photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 66 #4 2002 photo fide; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009; AOS Bulletin Vol 79 #12 2010 photo fide; The Wild Orchids in Yunnan Xu Xiang Ye & Liu 2010 photos fide; Orchid Digest Vol 78 #4 2014 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 83 #4 2019 Photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 88 #11 2019 photo fide;

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