Thrixspermum scortechinii (Hook.f.) Kuntze 1891 SECTION Thrixspermum Photo by © Malaysian Orchid Website

Common Name Scortechini's Thrixspermum [Italian Missionary and Curator of Malaysian Botanical Garden 1800's] ]

Flower Size 5.6" [14 cm]

Found in Bangladesh, Myanamar and Malaysia as a small sized epiphtye with a stout stem carrying fleshy, oblong, bilobed apically leaves that blooms on an 8" [20 cm] long, becoming bracteate and wider at the rachis inflorescence

CAUTION I am not positive about this determination so use with caution.

Synonyms *Sarcochilus scortechinii Hook.f. 1890

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Wood 1992 drawing ok;

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