Taeniophyllum biocellatum J.J.Sm. 1913 Photo by © Jay Pfahl Copyright ©

Another Angle Showing Eyes

Plant and Flower

Underside of Flower Showing Spur Photos courtesy of © Danny Lentz Copyright ©

Another Color Variety

Plant and Flower Photos by Milan Vagner Copyright ©

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Common Name The Two Eyed Taeniophyllum [refers to the circles within the flower]

Flower Size 1/8" [3 mm]

Found only in Java on forest trees as well as coffee trees at elevations of 300 to 1000 meters as a miniature sized, leafless, hot to warm growing, monopodial epiphyte with very flattened, creeping roots that blooms in the late spring on a 1.4" [3.5 cm] long, successively single, several to many flowered inflorescence with concave, apically sharp pointed floral bracts

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Java Comber 1990 photos fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 72 No 3 2003 photo fide; A field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2009 photo fide; Philippine Native Orchid Species Cootes 2011 photo good; Orchideen Series C Band 74 Thiv & Worz 2012 as T sp photo fide; Genera Orchidacearum Vol 6 Epidendroideae pt 3 Pridgeon, Cribb, Chase and Rasmussen 2014

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