Schoenorchis scolopendria Aver. 2012

Plant and Flowers SECTION Pumila Averyanov 1994

Photos by © Marni Turkel and Stony Point Ceramic Design Website

LATER EARLIER

Common Name The Millipede-Like Schoenorchis [refers to the habit of the plant that resembles a small centipede hiding in bark folds on shady old trees]

Flower Size .12 to .16" [3 to 4 mm]

Found in Vietnam within primary broad-leaved evergreen forest on tops of remnant highly eroded karst limestone ridges at elevations of 300 to 1100 meters as a mini-miniature sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with a plagiotropic, usually unbranched stem adpressed to the bark stem enveloped completely by imbricating leaf sheaths carrying distichous, two ranked, green to purple-violet, thick, succulent, narrowly ovaoid, more or less distinctly canaliculate above, acute to obtuse, finely alveolate-cancellate surface, broadening into the clasping base leaves that blooms in the later spring through earlier summer on an axillary, .08 to .16" [2 to 4 mm] long, 1 to 6 flowered inflorescence with 1 to 2, short, ovate to triangular, obtuse bracts and small, triangular to ovate, obtuse to acute floral bracts.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Taiwania 57: 134 Averyanov 2012 New Orchid Taxa and Records in the Flora of Vietnam drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 81 #6 2012 photo fide; Turczaninowia 19 (3): 5–58 L. V. Averyanov, Khang Sinh Nguyen etal 2016 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 88 #9 2019 photo fide;

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