Tuberolabium carnosum Seidenf. 1988 SECTIOM Tuberolabium

TYPE Drawing TYPE Photo by Suter/Drawing by Seidenfaden

Common Name or Meaning The Fleshy Tuberolabium

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in Thailand without exact locality as a small sized, hot growing epiphyte with a short stem carrying distichous, close, lanceolate-elliptic, unequally bilobed leaves that blooms on a pendent, 4.8 to 6" [12 to 15 cm] long, rachis heavily alate, many flowered inflorescence with minute, yellow floral bracts and carrying yellowish white flowers with purple side lobes and appendages.

Synonyms Parapteroceras carnosum (Seidenf.) Aver. 1990

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Opera Bot. 95: 327 Seidenfaden 1988 drawing/photo fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 19/20 1129 - 1264 Brieger 1988;

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