Porpax lanii Seidenf. 1981

Plant

Photo courtesy of Botanická zahrada a arboretum Mendelova zemedelská a lesnická univerzita v Brne, Brno, Czech

Full shade Warm LATERSpring

Common Name Lan's Porpax

Flower Size 3/4" [1.8 cm]

Found in Thailand and Vietnam in primary, mossy, humid forests at elevations of 1500 to 1600 meters as a miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte or lithophyte with adpressed, lens like pseudobulbs that blooms in the later spring on a short, 2 flowered inflorescence

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lindleyana Vol 15 No 4 2000; A field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2001 photo good; A field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2005 photo good; AOS Bulletin Vol 80 #10 2011 photo fide;

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