!Smitinandia micrantha (Lindl.) Holttum 1969

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Common Name The Small Flowered Smitinandia

Flower Size 1/3" [1.1 cm]

Found in the Chinese Himalayas, western Himalayas, Assam, Bangladesh, India, eastern Himalayas, Nepal, Bhutan, Sikkim, Myanamar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia and Borneo in lowlands and low montane riverine forests at elevations [200 to 300, Borneo] below 1300 meters as a small sized, hot to warm, pendant growing epiphyte with an elongated, branching, turning pendulous stem carrying several linear, axillary, unequally and obtusely bilobed apically leaves that blooms in the summer through winter on an lateral, simple, 2 3/4" to 6 3/4" [7 to 17 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence with triangular-ovate, acute to acuminate floral bracts and the fleshy, successively opening flowers arranged in a spiral

Synonyms Ascocentrum micranthum (Lindl.) Holttum 1947; Ceratochilus micranthus Lindl. 1833; Cleisostoma micranthum (Lindl.) King & Prantl 1898; Cleisostoma petitiana Guillaumin 1945; Cleisostoma poilanei Gagnep. 1932; Cleisostoma tixieri Guillaumin 1960; Gastrochilus parviflorus (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Pomatocalpa poilanei (Gagnep.) T. Tang & F.T. Wang 1951; Saccolabium fissum Ridl. 1896; *Saccolabium micranthum Lindl. 1828; Uncifera albiflora Guillaumin 1930

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/1995 as Saccolabium micranthum; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994;The Wild Orchids of China Tsi, Chen & Mori 1997; Orchid Flora Of Kamrup District Assam Iswar Chandra Barua 2001; Beautiful Orchids of Nepal Rajbhandari & Bhattarai 2001; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002; Orchids of Borneo Wood, Shim & Lamb Vol 4 2003;

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