Arachnis annamensis (Rolfe) J.J. Sm. 1912

Flower Closeup Photos by © Pieter C. Brouwer and his Nature Photo Website

Another Flower Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt

Common Name The Anaman Arachnis

Flower Size 1 3/5" [4 cm]

Found in Vietnam in evergreen, semi-deciduous and deciduous dry lowland forests at elevations of sealevel to 1500 meters as a large sized, scrambling, monopodial, hot to warm growing epiphyte with an elongate stem carrying many, alternate, shortly bilobed apically leaves that blooms in the spring on an axillary, erect, to 2' [60 cm] long, loosely many flowered inflorescence.

Synonyms Arachnanthe annamensis Rolfe 1905; Arachnis evrardii (Guillaumin) Tang & F.T.Wang 1951; Renanthera evrardii Guillaumin 1930

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Malaya Holtum 1953 ; The Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1987;

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