Thelasis micrantha (Brongn.) J.J.Sm. 1905 SUBGENUS Oxyanthera
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Photo by André Schuiteman, Dr. E.F. de Vogel and Jaap Vermeulen and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website
Common Name or Meaning The Small Flowered Thelasis
Flower Size .1" [2mm]
Found in Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam, Java, Sumatra, Borneo, Moluccas, New Guinea and the Philippines in lowland, hill and lower montane forests at elevations of 200 to 1600 meters as a small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with laterally flattened, oval, green, fleshy pseudobulbs envloped completely by basal leaf-bearing sheaths and carrying a single apical, erct, narrowly lanceolate, apically uneven, basally conduplicate and clasping leaf that blooms in the winter on an axillary, arising from the lower sheaths, brown, erect, 6" [15 cm] long, rhachis bent downwards and very short inflorescence carrying many scarcely opening, simultaneous, 10 to 12 flowers clustered together at the apex
Synonyms Oxyanthera decurva (Hook.f.) Hook.f. 1892; *Oxyanthera micrantha Brongn. 1834; Phreatia contracta (Blume) Miq. 1859; Thelasis carinata Rchb.f. 1857; Thelasis contracta Blume 1856; Thelasis decurva Hook.f. 1890
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Plantarum Vol 22 Hooker 1893 as Thelasis decurva drawing good; Die Orchideen Von Java J.J.Sm. 1905; Die Orchideen Von Java Figuren Atlas J.J.Smith 1908 drawing ok; Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Fascile 2 Ames 1908; Orchideen Schlechter 1915 as Oxyanthera micrantha; Flora of malaya Vol 1 Holttum 1957; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1961 drawing ok; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 as Oxyanthera micrantha; Die Orchideen #6 21-24 tafel 7 Rudolph Schlechter 1971 as Tholasis decurra spelling sic photo ok; Die Orchideen #6 21-24 tafel 7 Rudolph Schlechter 1971 as T decurva drawing Orchidiana Philipiniana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia Woods & Seidenfaden 1992 drawing ok/photo fide; Orchids of Java Comber 1990 photo ok; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Wood 1992 drawing good; The Plants of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Orchids Beaman, Wood, Beaman & Beaman 1993; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001 photo ok; Orchids of Sarawak Beaman, Wood & Beaman etal 2001; A to Z of South East Asian Orchid Species Vol 1 O'Byrne 2001 photo fide; Lindleyana Vol 17 No 1 2002; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003; A field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2005 photo good; Flora Malesia Orchids of New Guinea Vol V 2008; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 photo fide; Wild Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia Ong, O'Byrne, Yong & Saw 2011 photo fide
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