Octarrhena parvula Thwaites 1861 Photos by Unknown

Common Name or Meaning The Small Flowered Octarrhena

Flower Size .10" [2.7mm]

Found in Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Java, Sumatra, Borneo and the Philippines in hill, oak/laurel, lower montane and dry forests on sanstone ridges at elevations of 900 to 1800 meters on tree trunks and branches as a miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte with many close set, non-branching stems carrying many, laterally flattened, linear, acute, light green leaves that blooms in the spring on more than one per stem, 1.4" [3.5 cm] long, to 14 flowered, two ranked inflorescence with shortly triangular, acute floral bracts

Synonyms Octarrhena nana (Hook.f.) Schltr. 1911; Phreatia nana Hook.f. 1890; Phreatia parvula (Thwaites) Benth. ex Hkr.f 1890

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen Von Java J.J.Sm. 1905 as Phreatia parvula; Orchids of Java Comber 1990; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003;

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