Cyrtosia integra (Rolfe ex Downie) Garay 1986
Another Angle Photos by © Hendrik Jacobs and Orchids Online Australia Website
Common Name The Intact Cyrtosia [refers to the complete rim of the lip]
Flower Size .8" [2 cm]
Found in Thailand, Laos and Vietnam in tropical evergreen forests at elevations around 300 to 1000 meters as a small to medium sized, hot to warm growing terrestrial with an erect, branched at nodes stem with glabrous to pubescent, avate, acute, coriaceous sheaths that blooms in the spring on an erect, terminal and often several axillary racemes, furfuraceous, 8 to 26" [20 to 65 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence with ovate, furfuraceous bracts
Synonyms *Galeola integra Rolfe ex Downie 1925
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitnand 1959 as Galeola integra; Orchid Genera in Thailand Vol VI Seidenfaden 1978 as Galeola integra drawing fide; Flora Of Thailand Orchidaceae Vol 12 Part 1 Pedersen, Kurzweil, Suddee & Cribb 2011 drawing fide
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