Porpax laosensis Aver. 2016
Photo by Averyanov and New and rare orchids (Orchidaceae) in the flora of Cambodia and Laos Website Copyright ©
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EARLY 
Common Name The Laotian Porpax
Flower Size .08" [2 mm]
Found in Laos in dry evergreen primary and secondary forests along rocky streams at elevations of 350 to 400 meters as a mini-miniature sized, hot growing epiphyte or lithophyte with a creeping to clustering rhizome giving rise to close set, flattened, grassy green in youth, dull olive green in maturity, fleshy, oblate to discoid-lenticular, broadly obovate pseudobulbs enveloped by a net of fibers left from disintegrating sheaths and carrying 2, apical, early deciduous arising after flowering, sessile, cordate leaves that blooms in the late fall and early winter on a proteranthous, arisng fromm the apex of a young pseudobulb, single flowered inflorescence with a large, scarious, white, broadly obovate to almost subquadrate floral bract.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Turczaninowia 19 (3): 5–58 L. V. Averyanov, Khang Sinh Nguyen etal 2016 photo fide
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