Porpax jerdoniana (Wight) Rolfe 1908
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Common Name or Meaning Jerdon's Porpax
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Found in southern India and in the Andaman Islands in moist deciduous and semievergreen forests at elevations around 300 meters as a mini-miniature sized, hot growing epiphyte with reticulate, dark green pseudobulbs carrying 2 oblong-orbicular, prominent midvein, ciliolate, rounded apically leaves that blooms in the late spring and early summer on a short, single to 3 flowered inflorescence carrying tomentose flowers
Synonyms Cryptochilus wightii Rchb.f. 1862; Eria jerdoniana (Wight) Rchb.f. 1861; Eria lichenora Lindl. 1858; *Lichenora jerdoniana Wight 1851; Pinalia jerdoniana (Wight) Kuntze 1891; Porpax lichenora (Lindl.) T.Cooke 1907
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Botanisk Tiddskrft Bind 72 1-14 Contributions to the Orchid Flora of Thailand VIII Seidenfaden 1977 drawing fide; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitnand 1960; Indian Orchids, Guide to Identification and Culture vol 2 Pradhan 1979; Bulbophyllum and Their Allies Seigerist 2001; Lankesteriana Vol 18 [1]: 23–62 Jalal & Jayanth 2018; Orchids of Maharashtra Jalal 2018 photo fide;
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