Microtatorchis javanica J.J.Sm. 1918 Photo by © Art Vogel
Flower Closeup Photo courtesy of Peter O'Byrne, Jaap Vermeulen, Dr. E.F. de Vogel and André Schuiteman and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website
Another Flower Closeup Photo by © Art Vogel
Common Name or Meaning The Javanese Microtatorchis
Flower Size .1" [2.25mm]
Found in penninsular Malaysia, Java, New Guinea and Borneo in lower montane forests at elevations around 900 to 1500 meters as a miniature sized, hot to warm growing, twig epiphyte with a very short stem carrying 2 to 4, lanceolate, apiculate, sessile leaves that blooms in the winter and summer on a glabrous, angular, fractiflex, 6 to 8 flowered inflorescence with each flower arising from imbricate, persistent, triangular bracts
Synonyms Microtatorchis kaniensis Schltr. 1913
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Java Comber 1990; The Plants of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Orchids Beaman, Wood, Beaman & Beaman 1993; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Flora Malesiana; Orchids of New Guinea Vol IV Schuitman, deVogel 2006; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011; Wild Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia Ong, O'Byrne, Yong & Saw 2011 photo fide; A to Z of South East Asian Orchid Species Vol 2 O'Byrne 2011 photo fide
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