Calanthe abbreviata (Blume) Lindl.1833 Photo by E J Brill and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Herbarium Jany Renz © Website

Common Name The Short Calanthe

Flower Size .8" [2 cm]

Found in Java at elevations of 1400 to 2100 meters as a medium szied, warm to cool growing terrestrial with close set pseudobulbs carrying 2, dark green, narrowing below into the petiolate base leaves that blooms in the winter on a terminal, 14.8" [to 37 cm] long, to 20 flowered inflorescence with a persistent leafy bracts that is more than twice the length of the flower.

Synonyms Alismorchis abbreviata (Blume) Kuntze 1891; *Amblyglottis abbreviata Blume 1825

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen Von Java J.J.Sm. 1905; Die Orchideen Von Java Figuren Atlas J.J.Smith 1908 drawing fide; Orchid Digest Vol 45 No 4 1981 photo fide; Orchids of Java Comber 1990 photo ok

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