Porphyrodesme hewittii (Ames ex Merr.) Garay 1972

Plant and Inflorescence Photo by © J B Comber and the Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Rernz Herbaria Website.

Part Shade Cool

Common Name Hewitt's Porphyrodesme

Flower Size

Found in Sarawak Borneo at elevations around 1300 meters as a miniature sized, lowland, cool growing epiphyte with a short stem enveloped completely by leaf bearing sheaths and carrying 4 to 5, elliptic, obtuse leaves that blooms on an axillary, erect, successively 1 to 2, few flowered inflorescence.

CAUTION I have no way of verifying this determination so please use with caution

Synonyms Dendrocolla minima Ridl. 1908; *Thrixspermum hewittii Ames ex Merr.1921;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen lieferung 19/20 Schlechter/Brieger 1988; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Cribb & wood 1994; The Orchids of Sarawak Beaman, Wood, Beaman & Beaman 2001

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