Porpax reticulata Lindl. 1845
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Plant and Flower in situ Thailand
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Common Name or Meaning The Reticulate Porpax [refers to the netted Pseudobulbs] - The Gramophone Orchid
Flower Size
Found in India, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam in moist deciduous forests and semi-evergreen forests as a mini miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with an orbicular to discoid, well adpressed to the substratum pseudobulb enveloped by white sheaths with reticulate nerves carrying [after blooming] 2, oblong-elliptic, minutely papillate, obtuse, sessile leaves that blooms in the later spring on a short, single flowered inflorescence arising with an undeveloped pseudobulb and the plant no leaves at blooming .
Synonyms Aggeianthus marchantioides Wight 1851; Cryptochilus reticulatus (Lindl.) Rchb.f. 1862; Eria reticulata (Lindl.) Benth. 1883; Porpax papillosa Blatt. & McCann 1931
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; Indian Orchids, Guide to Identification and Culture vol 2 Pradhan 1979; Die Orchideen lieferung 11/12 633 - 752 Brieger 1981 drawing not = P filbuliformis; Orchids of Nilgiris Joseph 1987 drawing fide; Bulbophyllum and Their Allies Seigerist 2001; Lankesteriana Vol 18 [1]: 23–62 Jalal & Jayanth 2018 photo fide; Orchids of Maharashtra Jalal 2018 photo fide;
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