Tainia bicornis (Lindl.) Rchb.f. 1857 Photo by Rik © and The Orchids Online Australia Website

Drawing Photo by Miss Drake © and The Wikipedia Website

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Common Name The Two-Horned Tainia [refers to the 2 horns at the apex of the column]

Flower Size 1.4" [3.5 cm]

Found in India, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Java in high evergreen forets at elevations of 900 to 1300 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with cylindrical, basally swollen psedobulbs carrying a single, apical, broadly elliptic, acuminate, thin, 3 thickened veined, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the later winter on an erect, terminal, peduncle 4 bracted, 12.4 to 33" [31 to 37.5 cm] long, 18 to 24" [45 to 60 cm] long overall, rachis 3.2 to 12" [8 to 30 cm] long, 10 to 17 flowered inflorescence with patent to spreading, triangular floral bracts and carrying wide spreasing, mostly simultaneously opening flowers.

Synonyms *Ania bicornis Lindl. 1842; Ania latifolia Wight 1844; Eria bicornis (Lindl.) Rchb.f. 1861; Eria wightii (Blume) Rchb.f. 1861; Mitopetalum bicorne (Lindl.) Blume 1856; Mitopetalum wightii Blume 1856;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Atlas des Orchidees Cultivees Constantin 1920 drawing good; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959; The Orchids of Thailand Seidefaden & Smitnand 1965 corrections drawing fide; A Revised Handbook to the Flora of Ceylon Dassanayake & Fosberg 1981 drawing fide; Die Orchideen Band 3 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas Liferung #14 820 - 880 1984 as Ania bicornis; Orchid Monographs Vol 6 Seidenfaden 1992 drawing fide; A field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2001 photo fide; A field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2005 photo fide; The Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007

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