
Taeniophyllum hirtum Blume 1825 Photo by © J.B.Comber and The Swiss Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Roots and flower Photo by © Kazutoshi Moriya and Peacewood Orchid Photo Site
Flower Closeup? Photo by © Jean Jacques Villagente and Endemia Faune et Flora de Nouvelle Caledonie
Common Name The Hairy Taeniophyllum
Flower Size .4" [1.1 cm]
Found in Java and northern Borneo in lower montane forests at elevations around 1300 to 1900 meters as a warm to cool growing epiphyte with numerous, grey, somewhat flattened roots that blooms in the winter on a bristley, 1.6 to 2" [3 to 5 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence carrying 6 to 15 successively single, mostly yellow but some with green
CAUTION I have no way of verifying this determination so please use with caution. The second closeup photo is most likely wrong as it was submitted from New Caledonia.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Java Comber 1990 photos ok; The Plants of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Orchids Beaman, Wood, Beaman & Beaman 1993; A Checklist of the Orchdis of Borneo, Wood & Cribb 1994; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011
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