Staurochilus intermedius (L.O.Williams) Fessel & Lückel 1998

Inflorescence Photos courtesy of Peter O'Byrne, Dr. E.F. de Vogel Andre Schuiteman and Jaap Vermeulen and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website. and Flora Malesiana Vol III

Common Name The Intermediate Staurochilus

Flower Size .7" [1.7 cm]

Found in the Philippines as a small sized, hot growing epiphyte with thick stems carrying, 2 ranked, linear-oblong, oblique, crowded, leathery, conduplicate towards the base leaves that blooms in the summer and fall on a simple or to 7 basally branched, 12" [30 cm] long, to 60 flowered inflorescence with small transluscent floral bracts and small flowers.

Synonyms *Trichoglottis intermedia L.O.Williams 1938

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidiana Philipiniana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984 as Trichoglottis intermedia; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003; A to Z of South East Asian Orchid Species Vol 2 O'Byrne 2011 photo fide

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