Stereochilus laxus (Rchb.f.) Garay 1972

Photo by © Jin Xiaohua

Common Name The Lax Flowered Stereochilus

Flower Size

Found inYunnan province of China, Myanmar and Thailand in forests on trees at elevations around 1800 meters as a small sized, cool growing epiphyte with a stem carrying 2, ranked, oblong to linear leaves that blooms in the summer on a a lateral, 4 to 6" [10 to 15 cm] long, longer than the leaves, to 20 flowered inflorescence

Synonyms *Sarcanthus laxus Rchb.f. 1866

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen lieferung 21 Schlechter/Brieger 1989; Atlas des Orchidees Cultivees Constantin 1920 as Cleisostoma crassifolium drawing hmm = Stereochilus laxus drawing good; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1964 as Sarcanthus laxus drawing good; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 22 1329 - 1392 Brieger 1989; Orchid Digest Vol 62 #3 1998; Atlas of Native Orchids of China Vol 2 Jin Xiaohua, Li Jianwu and Ye Deping 2019 photo fide;

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