Porpax scaposa Seidenf. 1977
Side View of Flower Photos by Wins Buddhawong and his Facebook Page
Another Drawing Drawing by Seidenfaden
Common Name The Scaped Porpax [refers to the elongate {for the genus} inflorescence]
Flower Size .28" [7 mm]
Found in northern Thailand at elevations of 1450 to 1550 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with broadly conical in youth, becoming much flattened with age as well as covered with a network of fibers feft from the disintegrating sheath and carrying 2, apical, ovate-lanceolate, present at blooming leaves that blooms on a synanthous, .28 to .32" [7 to 8 mm] long, with 2 small, dark bracts and a large, broad, single flowered inflorescecnce with a floral bract enveloping the lower part of the flower.
Seidenfaden states that this flower within the genus Porpax most approaches the section Conchidium of the genus Eria and needs more research.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1960 Pg 214 fig 236 as P meirax drawing fide; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1965 corrections as P meirax drawing fide; *Botanisk Tiddskrft Bind 72 1-14 Contributions to the Orchid Flora of Thailand VIII Seidenfaden 1977 drawing fide;
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