Sirhookera lanceolata (Wight) Kuntze 1891 Photos by © Anurag Sharma and his Flickr Orchid Website
Another Plant and Flowers Photos by © Suranjan Fernando and Orchid Flickr Website
Inflorescence Photo © courtesy of Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria
EARLY
Common Name The Lanceolate Sirhookera
Flower Size .12 to .16" [3 to 4 mm]
Found in southwestern India and Sri Lanka in submontane and tropical wet evergreen forests at elevations of 800 to 1850 meters as a miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with very short, pseudobulbous stems carrying a single, elliptic-oblong to oblanceolate-oblong, somewhat acute apically, narrowing below into the petiolate base leaves that blooms in the fall through early spring on a erect, 8 to 10" [20 to 30 cm] long, shortly branching, slender, few flowered inflorescence.
Synonyms *Josephia lanceolata Wight 1851; Polystachya ramosa Gardner ex Thwaites 1861
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Indian Orchids, Guide to Identification and Culture vol 2 Pradhan 1979 drawing fide; A Revised Handbook to the Flora of Ceylon Vol 2 Dassanayake & Fosberg 1981 drawing fide; Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 15 881 - 944 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1984 photo/drawing fide; oberothwaitsii.jpg The Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007 drawing ok;
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