Schoenorchis buddleiflora (Schltr. & J.J.Sm.) J.J.Sm.1912

Plant and Flowers Photos by © Eric Hunt and his Orchid Photo Website

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Common Name or Meaning The Buddleja-Like Flower Schoenorchis [An ornamental shrub]

Flower Size .2 to .25" [5 to 6 mm]

Found only in western Sumatra and Borneo in lower montane mossy forests at elevations of 500 to 2200 meters as a medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with subterete, longitudinally ribbed, transversely rugulose, pendant green stems carrying subterete, acute, sulcate above, tranversely rugose below, fleshy, gently curved, shiney green, stained dark violet, becoming reddish to purplish in exposed sites leaves that blooms in the summer on a midway along the sheath, decurved, shiney dark green, spotteddark violet, slender, broader towards the apex, racemose, to 4" [10 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Borneo Wood Vol 4 2003 drawing/photo fide; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 1 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 drawing/photo fide; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011

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