!Renantherella histrionica [Rchb.f] Ridl. 1896 Photo by © Lourens Grobler

Front View Of Flower Photos courtesy of Timothy Cholcto

Flower Closeup Photo courtesy of Nik Fahmi and his Vortex Orchid Page

Common Name The Enchanting Renanthera

Flower Size about 1" [2.5 cm]

This is a small to medium sized, Malaysian, Bornean and Thai species that is from lowland forests and mangroves at altitudes of sealevel to 300 meters and is a hot growing, suberect to pendant epiphyte with elongate, leafy somewhat fractiflex, branching stem carrying many, fleshy, linear, acuminate, channeled leaves that blooms in the fall on a horizontal, 4" [10 cm] long, few to several [3 to 10] flowered, fractiflex inflorescence with triangular floral bracts and inverted flowers that open in succession as the rachis elongates.

Synonyms *Renanthera histrionica Rchb.f 1878;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959 drawing fide; Orchid Digest Vol 47 No 3 1983 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 53 No 5 1984 photo; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Wood & Seidenfaden 1992 drawing/photo fide; Orchids of Borneo Vol 1 Chan, Lamb, Shim & Wood 1994 drawing/photo fide as Renantherella histrionica [Rchb.f] Ridl. 1896 subsp auyongii; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994;

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