Diploprora truncata Rolfe ex Downie 1925 Photos by Manorot Tangsaveepha Copyright ©, and the Butterfly and Orchids Photo Gallery

Inflorescence Photo courtesy of Botanická zahrada a arboretum Mendelova zemedelská a lesnická univerzita v Brne, Brno, Czech

Common Name The Truncate Diploprora

Flower Size 5/8" [1.7 cm]

Found from India to Northern Thailand at elevations around 1650 meters as a monopodial, warm to cool growing epiphyte that blooms in the winter on a pendant, few to several [5 to 7], successively flowered inflorescence.

Synonyms Stauropsis truncata (Rolfe ex Downie) Tang & F.T.Wang 1951

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959 drawing, photo fide; A Field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2000; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007

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