Stigmatodactylus lamrii (J.J.Wood & C.L.Chan) D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. 2001

Photo by © Steph and her In Search Of Helmut Orchids Blog

Plant

Photo by © Imelda Harry and her My Time Out Blog

Common Name Lamri's Stigmatodactylus [Indonesian Director of Sabah National Parks current]

Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]

Found in Sabah Borneo in lower montane mossy forests at elevations around 1500 to 2000 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with tuber giving rise to an angular, weak stem carrying a single, apical, cordate, apiculate, irregular margined, thin textured leaf that blooms in the winter on an erect, peduncle [1.8 to 3 cm] long, naked, rachis [.5 to 2 cm] long, angular, fractiflex, successively 2 to 7 flowered inflorescence with ovate, mucronate, spreading floral bracts and carryinga flower with green tepals, a transparent green lipwith a brownish purple center and a dark purple basal callus.

CAUTION The plant photo is an aberrent non-flowering specimen. It must have been broken in youth and so put up a split stem, this is not normal.

Synonyms *Pantlingia lamrii J.J.Wood & C.L.Chan 1993

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 1 Wood, Beaman & Beaman 1993 as Pantlingia lamrii drawing/photo fide; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994 as Pantlingia lamrii ; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 1 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 as Pantlingia lamrii Drawing/Photo fide; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 as Pantlingia lamrii

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