Schoenorchis jerdoniana (Wight) Garay 1972 TYPE Drawing by © Wight and The Plant Illustrations Website

Part shade LATE Summer EARLY Fall

Common Name Jerdon's Schoenorchis

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in southern India as a mini-miniature sized epiphyte with flexuous stems carrying, condulpicate, linear-oblong leaves that blooms in the late summer and early fall on a usually terminal, flexuous, branched, to 3.2" [8 cm] long, distichous, many flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Gastrochilus jerdonianus (Wight) Kuntze 1891; Saccolabium jerdonianum (Wight) Rchb.f. 1864; *Taeniophyllum jerdonianum Wight 1851

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Indian Orchids a Guide to Identiofication and Culture Vol 2 Pradhan 1979 drawing fide;

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