Sirhookera latifolia (Wight) Kuntze 1891

In situ Plant in Nilgiri Reserve Photos by © Siddarth Machado and The Flowers of India Website

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Common Name The Broadleaved Sirhookera

Flower Size

Found in southern India and Sri Lanka at elevations of 800 to 1400 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with a very short stem carrying lanceolate-elliptic, oblong, acute, narrowing below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms on a 6 to 8" branched, each branch slender, successively few, several flowered inflorescence

Synonyms *Josephia latifolia Wight 1851

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

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