Chroniochilus minimus (Blume) J.J.Sm.1927Photo by Takato NATSU from Japan and his Japan Orchids Page

Common Name The Least Chroniochilus

Flower Size .2" [6mm]

Found in penninsular Malaysia, Java and Sabah and Sarawak Borneo in lowland forests at elevations around 700 meters as a mini-miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with a short stem carrying about3, oblong, asymmetric, acute, basally clasping leaves that blooms on an axillary, [4mm] long, 3 to 4 flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Aerides minima (Blume) Lindl 1833; Chroniochilus tjidadapense J.J.Sm.1918; *Dendrocolla minima Blume 1825; Sarcochilus minimus (Blume) Rchb.f. 1863; Sarcochilus tembelingensis Carr 1929; Sarcochilus tjidadapensis (J.J.Sm.) Carr 1929; Thrixspermum minimum (Blume) Kuntze 1891

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Of Malaya Vol 1 Holttum 1953 as Sarcochilus tjadapensis; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Orchids of Java Comber 1990; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Wood 1992 drawing ok; The Plants of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Orchids Wood Beaman & Beaman 1993; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Cribb & Wood 1994; Orchids of Sarawak Beaman and Wood 2001; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 drawing fide/photo good;

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