Renanthera isosepala Holttum 1965 Photo courtesy of Jay Pfahl

Flower Closeup Photo courtesy of David Jubineau

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Common Name The Three Equal Sepal Renanthera

Flower Size

Found in Thailand and Sabah, Borneo in swamp forest, coastal forests on peat soils to calcareous coastal sands at elevations below 50 meters and needs a lot of light to bloom as a giant sized, hot growing terrestrial or epiphyte climbing to the tops of the stunted trees to get full sun. This species has a simple or occasionally branching stem carrying ligulat, unequally bilobed apicallly, coriaceous, articulated to the purple spotted sheath below that blooms on a many flowered, 2' [60 cm] long, 3 to 4 branched inflorescence with ovate, acute floral bracts.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Borneo Chan, Shim, Lamb & Wood 1994; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994;

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