Uncifera lancifolia (King & Pantl.) Schltr. 1914

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Part shade Cool Cold LATESpring EARLYSummer

Common Name The Lanceolate Leaved Uncifera

Flower Size

Found in the eastern Himalayas at elevations around 2000 meters as a small sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with a monopodial, pendent, weakly zig-zag stem enveloped by leaf bearing sheaths and carrying linear-lanceolate, acute to acuminate, narrowing below into the subsessile base leaves that blooms in the late spring and early summer on an axillary, slender, 1.6 to 2" [4 to 5 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence with basal sheaths and lanceolate, acute floral bracts.

CAUTION I have no way of verifying this determination so use with caution.

Synonyms *Saccolabium lancifolium King & Pantl. 1896

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Sikkim-Himalaya Part 1 King & Pantling 1898 as Saccolabium lancifolium drawing fide; Indian Orchids, A Guide to Identification and Culture Vol 2 Pradhan 1979 drawing fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 19/20 1129 - 1264 Brieger 1988; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002

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