Chiloschista exuperei (Guillaumin) Garay 1972 Photo by © Karel & Alex Petrzelka and the Vietnam Orchid Website

Plant and Flowers Photo courtesy of Jean Claude George

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Common Name Exupere's Chiloschista [French Anatomist late 1700's]

Flower Size 1/3" [.8 cm]

Found in Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos in semi-deciduous and deciduous dry lowland forests and savana-like woodlands at elevations of sealevel to 700 meters as a miniature sized, cool to hot growing epiphyte that blooms in the fall on a pendant few to several flowered inflorescence.

Synonyms *Taeniophyllum exuperei Guillaumin 1957

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; A Field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2001; The Wild Orchids in Yunnan Xu Xiang Ye & Liu 2010 photos fide;

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