Smitinandia helferi ( Hook.f. ) Garay 1972
Side View Of FlowerPhotos by Jay Pfahl
Common Name Helfer's Smitinandia
Flower Size 1/16" [.2 cm]
Found in the Andaman Island, Myanamar, penninsular Malaysia, Thailand, Laos and Vietnam as a miniature to small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with a short stem carrying a few loriform, contracted and notched apically, close set leaves that blooms in the summer on a 3" [7.5 cm] long, descending, many flowered, racemose inflorescence with many successively opening flowers.
Synonyms Gastrochilus helferi (Hook.f.) Kuntze 1891; *Saccolabium helferi Hook. f. 1890; Saccolabium humile Ridl. 1911; Smitinandia humilis (Ridl.) Holttum 1969
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/95 as Saccolabium helferi
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