Epigeneium chapaense Gagnep. 1932

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Common Name or Meaning The Chapa Epigeneium

Flower Size

Found in Vietnam in humid, mossy, mixed and coniferous forests on mossy branches of old, dwarf, gnarled trees and highland cloud forests as a creeping, small sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte or lithophyte at elevations of 600 to 2200 meters and blooms in the fall

Synonyms Sarcopodium chapaense (Gagnep.) Tang & F.T.Wang 1951

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lindleyana Vol 15 No 4 2000; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007

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