Porpax meirax (Parish & Rchb. f.) King & Pantl. 1898

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Common Name The Enchanting Porpax

Flower Size about 1/2" [1.25 cm]

A dwarf epiphytic or lithophytic, cool to hot growing orchid that is found in Myanamar with turbinate, clustered pseudobulbs with reticulate, dry basal sheaths carring 2, apical, elliptic-oblong, acute, petiolate leaves arising after it blooms in the summer and fall with a solitary flower arising from the leafless apex of the pseudobulb.

Synonyms *Cryptochilus meirax Parish & Rchb. f. 1874; Eria meirax (Parish & Rchb. f.) N.E. Br. 1880

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/95 as Eria meirax; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2007

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