Renanthera imschootiana Rolfe 1891 Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt, plant grown by Gary Jones
Flower Closeup Photo courtesy of Dale and Deni Borders
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Common Name Imschoot's Renanthera [Belgian Orchid Enthusiast 1800's]
Flower Size 2 1/4" [6 cm]
Found in Assam, Burma, Southern China, Laos and Vietnam on tree trunks and along gorge edges in evergreen, lowland forests at elevations of 500 to 1500 meters as a large sized , cool to hot growing epiphyte with a long, liana-like, branched stem becoming woody with age and carrying many, linear, leathery, truncately rounded, bilobed apically leaves that blooms in the late spring and early summer on a 1 1/2' [45 cm] long, axillary, branched or racemose, loosely many flowered inflorescence with semiorbicular floral bracts and longlasting flowers.
Synonyms Renanthera papilio King & Prain 1895
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Wild Orchids of China Tsi, Chen & Mori 1997
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