Taeniophyllum retrospiculatum (King & Pantl.) King & Pantl.1898 SUBGENUS Codonosepalum SECTION Sepalocodon
Photos by André Schuiteman, Dr. E.F. de Vogel and Jaap Vermeulen and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website. and Flora Malesiana Vol III
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Common Name The Back-Bent Inflorescence Taeniophyllum
Flower Size .15" [4 mm]
Found in Yunnan province of China, the eastern Himalayas and Laos on mossy tree trunks at elevations of 1300 to 2400 meters as a miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with flattened, grey-green roots giving rise in the late spring to short, 1 to 2 flowered, glandular pubescent inflorescence with a few distant sheaths and lanceolate acute floral bracts with successively single flowers
Synonyms *Sarcanthus retrospiculatum King & Pantl. 1896
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Sikkim-Himalaya Part 1 King & Pantling 1898 drawing fide; The Orchids of India, a Guide to Identification and Culture Vol 2 Pradhan 1979 drawing good; The Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002 drawing fide; The Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007 drawing ok; The Wild Orchids in Yunnan Xu Xiang Ye & Liu 2010 photo hmm; Atlas of Native Orchids of China Vol 2 Jin Xiaohua, Li Jianwu and Ye Deping 2019 photo hmm;
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