!Pteroceras teres (Blume) Holttum 1960
Photo by André Schuiteman, courtesy of Dr. E.F. de Vogel and Jaap Vermeulen and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website. and Flora Malesiana Vol III
Photo by © Eric Hunt
Common Name The Terete Leafed Pteroceras
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Assam, Bangladesh, eastern Himalayas, Nepal, Bhutan, Thailand, Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Borneo, Java, Lesser Sunda Islands, Moluccas, the Philippines, Sulawesi and Sumatra in lowland, hill and lower montane forests forests at elevations of 500 to 1500 meters as a miniature to small sized, pendant, warm to cool growing epiphyte with an unbranched stem carrying 4 to 17, linear-oblong to lanceolate, oblique, 2 lobed, sessile jointed leaves that blooms in the winter and spring on 1 to 4, axillary, pendant, glabrous, .6" to 3" [1.5 to 7.8 cm] long, successively 5 at once, many flowered inflorescence enveloped basally by 1 to 4, small sheaths and the rachis is dilated with winged nodes and scale like floral bracts all carrying resupinate, fragrant, short-lived flowers.
Synonyms Aerides suaveolens Roxb., 1832; Aerides teres (Blume) Lindl. 1833; *Dendrocolla teres Blume 1825; Ornitharium striatulum Lindl. & Paxton 1851; Pteroceras radicans Hassk. 1842; Pteroceras suaveolens (Roxb.) Holttum 1960; Sarcochilus palawanensis Ames 1915; Sarcochilus suaveolens (Roxb.) Hook.f. 1890; Sarcochilus teres (Blume) Rchb.f. 1863; Sarcochilus teres var. exinflatus J.J.Sm.1932; Thrixspermum teres (Blume) Rchb.f. 1868
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1856 as Dendrocolla teres; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1857 as Dendrocolla teres; Xenia Orchidaceae vol 2 Rchb.f 1865 as Thrixspermum teres drawing fide; The Orchids of Sikkim-Himalaya Part 1 King & Pantling 1898 as Sarcochilus suaveolaens drawing fide; Die Orchideen Von Java J.J.Sm. 1905 as Sarchochilus suaveolens; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1963 as Pteroceras suaveolens drawing fide; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1965 corrections; Indian Orchids, Guide to Identification and Culture vol 2 Pradhan 1979 as Pteroceras suaveolens drawing fide; The Complete Writings on Philippine Orchids Vol 1 Quisumbing 1981 as Sarcochilus palawanensis; Opera Botanica #95 Seidenfaden 1988 drawing/photo fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 21 1165 - 1328 Brieger 1988 drawing ok/ photo good; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 21 1165 - 1328 Brieger 1988 as Macropodanthus alatus not = P teres photo fide; Opera Botanica #95 Seidenfaden Drawing fide for Macropodanthuis alatus/photo not = Pteroceras teres fide; Orchids of Java Comber 1990 photo good; Orchids of Kumaun Himalayas Pangtey, Samant and Rawat 1991 as P suaveolens; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Wood & Seidenfaden 1992 as Macropodanthus alatus drawing correct for Macropodanthus alatus/photo fide for P teres; The Plants of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Orchids Beaman, Wood, Beaman & Beaman 1993 photo fide; Identification of the Orchids [Orchidaceae Juss.] Vietnam Averyanov 1994; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; The Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001; Orchids of Sarawak Beaman, Wood & Beaman etal 2001; A field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2001 photo fide; Lindleyana Vol 17 No 1 2002; The Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002 drawing fide; A field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2005 photo fide; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007 drawing fide; Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 5 2010; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 drawing/photo fide; A to Z of South East Asian Orchid Species Vol 2 O'Byrne 2011 photo fide; Philippine Native Orchid Species Cootes 2011 photo fide; Philippine Native Orchid Spceies Cootes 2011 photo fide; Genera Orchidacearum Vol 6 Epidendrodeae Pt 3 Pridgeon, Chase, Cribb & Rasmussen 2014 drawing/photo fide; LANKESTERIANA 15(1): 7—50. Jeewan Singh Jalal & J. Jayanthi 2015; Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 18 2016 photo fide; A Century of New Orchid Records in Bhutan Royal Government of Bhutan 2017 Drawing/photo fide;
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