Renanthera coccinea Lour. 1790 Photo courtesy of Dalton Holland Baptista

Common Name The Scarlet Renanthera - In Thailand - Wai daeng

Flower Size 2 to 2 1/2" [5 to 6.25 cm]

Found in Myanamar, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam and Hainan China on open rocks and bluffs at elevations of 100 to 1200 meters as a giant sized, hot to warm growing monopodial lithophyte in full sun or epiphyte in primary forests with a simple to branched, elongate, stout stem carrying many 2 ranked, thick, fleshy, oblong to shortly lorate leaves that blooms in the spring on an axillary, lateral, paniculate, 2 to 3' [60 to 90 cm] long, divaricate, laxly several to many flowered inflorescence.

Synonyms Epidendrum renanthera Raeusch. 1797; Gongora philippica Llanos 1859

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Xenia Orchidaceae Rchb.f 1854; The Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/95; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959 drawing; The Wild Orchids of China Tsi, Chen & Mori 1997; Oasis Vol 1 No 1 2000 photo; Orchids Australia Vol 12 No 6 2000 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 73 No 7 2004 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 74 No 11 2005 photo;

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