Thrixspermum scortechinii (Hook.f.) Kuntze 1891 SECTION Thrixspermum
Lip Detail Photos by © Peter O'Byrne and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Another Flower Photo by © Malaysian Orchid Website
Common Name Scortechini's Thrixspermum [Italian Missionary and Curator of Malaysian Botanical Garden 1800's] ]
Flower Size 5.6" [14 cm]
Found in Bangladesh, Myanmar and Malaysia at elevations around 500 to 950 meters as a small sized, warm growing epiphtye with a stout stem carrying fleshy, oblong, bilobed apically leaves that blooms on a spreading, becoming bracteate and wider at the rachis, 8" [20 cm] long, successively single to 2, many flowered inflorescence
Synonyms *Sarcochilus scortechinii Hook.f. 1890
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Wood 1992 drawing good;
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