Sarcoglyphis mirabilis [Rchb.f]Garay 1972 Photos by © Karel Petrzelka and the Vietnam Orchid Website

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Common Name The Wonderful Sarcoglyphis

Flower Size 2/5” [1 cm]

A miniature, monopodial epiphyte from Myanamar, Thailand, Laos and Vietnam at elevations around 200 to 300 meters in evergreen lowland forests as a miniature sized, hot growing epiphyte with a short stem carrying ligulate, ligulate obtuse bilobed apically leaves that blooms on an axillary, lateral, paniculate 1 3/4" [4.5 cm] long, several to many flowered inflorescence with succesive opening flowers occuring in the spring.

Synonyms *Sarcanthus mirabilis Rchb. f. 1878; Sarcanthus tixieri Guillaumin 1964; Sarcanthus vientianensis Guillaumin 1958

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/95 as Sarcanthus mirabilis; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959 as Sarcanthus mirabilis drawing fide

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