Renanthera monachica Ames 1915 Photo courtesy of Bill Garris

Another Clone Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt, plant grown by Petite Plaisance

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Common Name Spanish Dancing Girl Renenthera

Flower Size 1 to 1 1/2" [2.5 to 4 cm]

This is a Philippine species from the island of Luzon at elevations up to 500 meters that is a medium sized, warm to hot growing epiphyte with a long stem carrying many, distichous, approximate, ligulate, unequaly and obtusely bilobed apically, coriaceous leaves that blooms on an axillary, suberect, simple, 1 1/2' [45 cm] long, laxly racemose inflorescence that has tubular bracts, occuring in the late winter and spring with many [6 to 30], non-fragrant, long-lasting flowers. It is a monopodial, vandanaceous, medium sized epiphyte with an axillary inflorescence and does best in a wood slat basket with little or no medium.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidiana Philipiniana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984; Orchids of the Philippines Cootes 2001; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003;

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