Porpax borneensis J.J.Wood & A.L.Lamb in J.J.Wood & al. 1993

Plant and Flowers in situ on rock face

Photos by © Rogier Van Vugt and his P-Base Orchid Photo Website

Common Name The Bornean Porpax

Flower Size 2.4" [6 cm]

Found in northern Borneo low primary hill forests in ultramafic habitats often at the base of Gymnostoma sumatrana trees or adpressed to rocks at elevations of 600 to 1000 meters as a mini-miniature sized, hot to warm growing epipiphyte or lithophyte with a creeping rhizome giving rise to flattened, ovoid, often bilobed pseudobulb enveloped in youth by a sheath and carrying 1 to 2, oblong to oblongovate, minutely retuse to asymetric apically, glabrous leaves that blooms in the summer on a short, proteranthous, basal, .16" [4 mm] long, single flowered inflorescence.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *The Plants of Mt Kinabalu Vol 2 J. J. Wood etal 1993 drawing/photo fide; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 2 2008 drawing/photo; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 1 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 photo fide; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------