Anoectochilus tetrapterus Hooker 1890Drawing by © Hooker's Icones Vol 22

Common Name The Four Winged Anoectochilus [refers to the lip]

Flower Size 3/4" [1.8cm]

Found in Manipur Assam at elevations around 600 meters as a miniature sized, hot to warm growing terrestrial with a decumbent stem carrying a few, 5 nerved, ovate to ovate-cordate, abruptly narrowing below into the inflated leaf bearing sheath that blooms on a terminal, erect, tomentose, several flowered inflorescence

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones 22 1893 Hooker drawing fide;

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