Renanthera citrina Aver. 1997 Photos by © Stefan Paeffgen

Inflorescence Photo courtesy of David Jubineau and His Bulbophyllum Pages Copyright ©

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Common Name The Lemon Yellow Renanthera [refers to the flowers color]

Flower Size 2.4" [6 cm]

Found in Vietnam in humid, mossy, mixed and coniferous forests on lower mossy trunks of old gnarled trees at elevations of 650 to 1200 meters as a small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte or occasional lithophyte on mossy rock bluffs with a pendulous and ascending woody stem carrying lanceolate to narrowly lanceolate, rigid, leathery, curved, unequally bilobed apically, sessile, articulated leaves that blooms in the winter on an erect to inclined, to 6" [15 cm] long, racemose, 7 to 10 flowered inflorescence with small triangular floral bracts and odorless flowers.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *AOS Bulletin Vol 66 No 12 1997 photo; Lindleyana Vol 15 No 4 2000; AOS Bulletin Vol 73 No 7 2004 photo;

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