!Haraella retrocalla (Hayata) Kudô 1930 Photo by © Lourens Grobler

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Common Name The Rear Facing Lip Spur Haraella

Flower Size 3/4" [2 cm]

A miniature, Taiwanese, epiphytic species found in ancient forests at elevations of 1000 to 2200 meters that needs warm to cold conditions with even year round watering and medium bright light with short, leafy stems carrying distichous, fleshy, falcate, oblong to oblanceolate, acute leaves that blooms on a short, pendant, axillary, few [to 3] flowered inflorescence with deltoid bracts and successively opening flowers occuring in the fall to early winter. This plant does best mounted on a piece of driftwood but a pot will do.

Synonyms Gastrochilus odoratus (Kudô) J.J.Sm. 1937; Gastrochilus retrocallus (Hayata) Hayata 1917; Gastrochilus retrocallosum Schltr. 1919; Haraella odorata Kudo 1930; Saccolabium odoratum (Kudô) Makino & Nemoto 1931; *Saccolabium retrocallum Hayata 1914

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;