Sarcochilus hartmannii F.Meuller 1874
Less Color Flower Photo by © Eric Hunt and His Orchid Website
Common Name Hartman's Sarcochilus [Amatuer Australian Botanist 1800's]
Flower Size 1 1/4" or less [1 to 3 cm]
An eastern Australian, small to medium sized, cool to hot growing, lithophytic and sometimes epiphytic species found on exposed cliffs at altitudes up to 1000 meters, near to the sea and is vandanaceous in form, with numerous, stout, erect stems carrying 6 to 8, thick, fleshy, oblong-lanceolate, falcate, obliqurly emarginate or acute leaves that blooms on a erect to arcuate, reddish, axillary, 3 to 10" [6 to 25 cm] long, several to many [up to 25] flowered inflorescence that is longer than the leaves, occuring in the late winter till spring and has non-fragrant flowers. They can be mounted or grown in a pot with regular water and fertilizer while in growth and as they mature a lessening is desireable.
Synonyms Sarcochilus rubricentrum Fitz. 1880; Thrixspermum rubrocentrum (Fitzg.) Rchb.f. 1887
Sarcochilus hartmannii F.Meuller 1874 var alba
A white color version of this species
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