Holcoglossum amesianum (Rchb. f.) Christenson 1987

Different aspect of frontal view of flower

Side View Of Flower Photo courtesy of Jay Pfahl

Inflorescence Photo courtesy of Jean Claude George

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Common Name Ames' Holcoglossum [American Botanist early 1900's]

Flower Size to 2" to 2 1/2" [5 cm to 6.75 cm]

A pendant, medium sized, cold to warm growing epiphyte and lithophyte found in Assam India, Myanamar, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, China and Thailand in full sun on rocks or as an epiphyte in primary montane forests at 1200 to 1600 meters in elevation with a long, leafy stem carrying rigid-coriaceous, arcuate or straight, channeled, linear-tapering, acuminate or acute, terete, dark green leaves that blooms in the fall and winter on a simple or branched, axillary, to 2 1/2' [75 cm] long, racemose inflorescence with ovate-olliptic, obtuse bracts and has several to many [15 to 50] fragrant, color variable flowers.

Synonyms Holcoglossum amesianum f. album (B.S.Williams) Christenson 1993 publ. 1994; *Vanda amesiana Rchb. f. 1887; Vanda amesiana var. alba B.S.Williams 1894

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/95 as Vanda amesiana; The Wild Orchids of China Tsi, Chen & Mori 1997

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