!Schoenorchis seidenfadenii Pradhan 1978

Plant and Flowers Photos by © Milan Vágner

Common Name or Meaning Seidenfaden's Schoenorchis [Danish Orchid Botanist in Thailand Died 2001]

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in Thailand and Vietnam at elevations of 550 to 600 meters as a miniature sized, warm growing, creeping epiphyte with a short, erect stem carrying distichous, thick, succulent like, elliptic, apically unequally bilobed, basally clasping leaves that flowers in the spring and summer on several, axillary, few to several flowered inflorescence.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1963 as S fragrans [gt2602] drawing fide; *AOS Bulletin Vol, 47 No 10 1978 drawing fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 21 1165 - 1328 Brieger 1988; Opera Botanica #95 Seidenfaden 1988 drawing/photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 58 No 4 1994 photo ok; A to Z of South East Asian Orchid Species Vol 1 O'Byrne 2001 photo fide; A field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2005 photo ok; Mille et Une Mini Orchideees Roguenant 2009 photo good;

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