Renanthera matutina [Blume]Lindley 1833 Photo courtesy of Jay Pfahl

Common Name The Early Blooming Renenathera

Flower Size to 2 1/4" [to 6 cm]

A large sized, hot growing vine-like epiphytic native of Thailand, Sumatra, Java, Borneo and Malaysia in lowland and mixed montane forests at elevations of 100 to 600 meters as a large to giant sized, hot growing pendulous epiphyte on tree branches in light to moderate shade with a long stem carrying many, distant, oblong or lorate, fleshy, unequally bilobed apically, conduplicate below into the clasping base, stiff leaves that flowers in the fall on an axillary, 2 3/4' to 3' [50 to 90 cm] long, paniculate, many flowered inflorescence with ovate, reflexed floral bracts.

Synonyms Aerides angustifolium Hooker 1833; *Aerides matutinum Bl. 1805; Ceraia saaronica (J.König) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones 2002?; Epidendrum matutinum Poir. 1810; Epidendrum saaronicum J.König 1791; Nephranthera matutina Hassk. 1842; Renanthera angustifolia Hkr.f 1890;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidiana Philipiniana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984; Orchids of Java Comber 1990; Orchids of Borneo Chan, Shim, Lamb & Wood 1994; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994 as Renanthera angustifolia; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2002 as Ren. angustifolium

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