!Renanthera coccinea Lour. 1790

Photo by Dalton Holland Baptista

Common Name The Scarlet Renanthera - In Thailand - Wai daeng - In China Huo Yan Lan

Flower Size 2 to 2 1/2" [5 to 6.25 cm]

Found in Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Guangxi, Hainan and Yunnan provinces of China on open rocks and bluffs at elevations of 100 to 1200 meters as a giant sized, hot to cool growing monopodial lithophyte in full sun or epiphyte in primary forests with a simple to branched, elongate, stout stem carrying many 2 ranked, thick, fleshy, oblong to shortly lorate leaves that blooms in the spring on an axillary, lateral, paniculate, 2 to 3' [60 to 90 cm] long, divaricate, laxly several to many flowered inflorescence.

Synonyms Epidendrum renanthera Raeusch. 1797; Gongora philippica Llanos 1859

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