Pomatocalpa angustifolium Seidenf. 1988

Plant and Flower in situ Thailand

Photos by Manorot Tangsaveepha Copyright ©, and the Butterfly and Orchids Photo Gallery

Full Shade Hot Fall

Common Name The Thin Leafed Pomatocalpa

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in Laos and Thailand at elevations of 300 to 500 meters as a miniature sized, hot growing epiphyte with short stems carrying 6, leathery leaves that blooms in the winter and spring on several descending, often basally single branched, to 4" [10 cm] long, successively to 7 at once, many flowered inflorescence.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Opera Botanica #95 Seidenfaden 1988 drawing/photo good; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 42 - 43 pg 2626 - 2762 Brieger 2001; A to Z of South East Asian Orchid Species Vol 2 O'Byrne 2011 photo fide; Turczaninowia 16(4):26-46 NEW AND RARE ORCHIDS (ORCHIDACEAE) IN THE FLORA OF CAMBODIA AND LAOS Averyanov 2013

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