Renanthera coccinea Lour. 1790 Photo courtesy of Dalton Holland Baptista

Common Name The Scarlet Renanthera

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 550 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 ; The Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/95; The Wild Orchids of China Tsi, Chen & Mori 1997

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