Renanthera elongata (Blume) Lindl. 1833 Photos courtesy of Peter O'Byrne, Dr. E.F. de Vogel and Jaap Vermeulen and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website. and Flora Malesiana Vol III

Common Name or Meaning The Elongate Renanthera

Flower Size [.4" [1 cm]

Found in Thailand, Borneo, Java, Malaysia, the Philippines and Sumatra in swamp forest and mixed hill forests, at elevations of sealevel to 1000 meters as a giant sized, hot growing epiphyte, or terrestrial with an elongate stem carrying many coriaceous, oblong, rounded and slightly bilobed apically, articulated to the persistent leaf sheaths and blooming on an axillary, suberect to erect, many branched, subdesely many flowered, stout, terete, 12" [30 cm] long, purple inflorescence with minute, triangular floral bracts.

Synonyms *Aerides elongata Blume 1825; Gastrochilus reflexus (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Porphyrodesme elongata (Blume) Garay 1972; Renanthera micrantha Blume 1849; Saccolabium reflexum Lindl. 1833

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Java Comber 1990; Orchidiana Philipiniana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984 as Porphyrodesme elongata; Orchids of Borneo Vol 1 Chan, Lamb, Shim and Wood 1994; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003 ;