Renanthera bella J.J. Wood 1981

Side View of Flower Photo courtesy of Timothy Cholcto

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Common Name The Beautiful Renanthera

Flower Size 1.6" [4 cm]

Found as a large sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte in Sabah Borneo arising from low down on the trunks of montane forest trees with a long, simple, woody stem enveloped completely by imbricate, persistent leaf sheaths below and leaf-bearing sheaths above and carrying alternate, conduplicate, oblong-ligulate, coriaceous, unequally bilobed apically leaves and blooms on an almost horizontal, dense, many [13 to 16] flowered, occasionally branched, 18" [45 cm] long inflorescence with small greyish brown, ovate, obtuse sterile bracts below and ovate, obtuse floral bracts above.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Borneo Chan, Shim, Lamb & Wood 1994; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994;

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