Stereochilus erinaceus (Rchb. f.) Garay 1972
Plant and Flowers Photos courtesy of Manorot Tangsaveepha Copyright ©, and the Butterfly and Orchids Photo Gallery
Another Flower - notice all the hair on the flower itself Photo courtesy of Lourens Grobler ©
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Common Name The Hedgehog Stereochilus
Flower Size 1/3" [.8 cm]
Found in Burma and Thailand as a small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with a short stem carrying fleshy, lanceolate, acute leaves that blooms in the late spring on a pendant to lateral, 3 to 6" [7.5 cm to 15 cm] long, racemose, few flowered inflorescence.
This species and S hirtus are very similar and often confused but this species differs mostly in the hairs on the pedicel, sepals and petals of the flower not just the pedicel as in S hirtus.
Synonyms *Sarcanthus erinaceus Rchb.f. 1864; Sarcanthus stowellianus Bateman 1867
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/1995 as Sarcanthus erinaceus; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 as Sarcanthus erinacea; A Field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2001 photo ok
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