!Phreatia elegans Lindl. 1830 SECTION Phreatia photo by © Thjomas Dohling and his Webshots Orchid Photo Website

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Common Name The Elegant Phreatia

Flower Size .08" [2mm]

Found in India, Sri Lanka, Assam and the eastern Himalayas at elevations around 2000 meters as a miniature to small sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with a stout, more or less pseudobulbous stem carrying 1 to 3, linear-oblong to oblanceolate, obtuse to retuse, disitichous, narrowing below inot the sessile base leaves that blooms in the late summer on an erect to arching, glabrous, lateral, 4 to 6.8" [10 to 17 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence with distant, lanceolate, acute bracts and ovate-oblong to obovate-oblong, acuminate, single veinedc floral bracts.

Synonyms Eria elegans (Lindl.) Rchb.f. 1868; Thelasis elegans (Lindl.) Blume 1856

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Sikkim-Himalaya Part 1 King & Pantling 1898 drawing hmm; Die Orchideen #6 21-24 tafel 7 Rudolph Schlechter 1971 photo ok; The Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002 drawing ok; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007 drawing ok

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