!Schoenorchis seidenfadenii Pradhan 1978

Plant and Flowers Photo by © Milan Vágner

Common Name or Meaning Seidenfadden's Schoenorchis [Danish Orchid Botanist in Thailand mid to late 1900's]

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in Thailand and Vietnam at elevations of 550 to 600 meters as a miniature sized, hot to warm growing, creeping epiphyte with a short, erect, stem carrying distichous, thick, succulent like, elliptic, apically unequally bilobed, basally clasping leaves that flowers in the spring and summer on several, axillary, few to several flowered inflorescence.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959 drawing wrongly attributed to S fragrans drawing correct for S seidenfadenii; *AOS Bulletin Vol, 47 No 10 1978 drawing; Orchid Digest Vol 58 No 4 1994 photo ok; A to Z of South East Asian Orchid Species Vol 1 O'Byrne 2001 photo fide;

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