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Orchid Species: Pteroceras fragrans
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Pteroceras fragrans is an orchid species identified by (Ridl.) Garay in 1972.
ORIGIN: Found in Sarawak, Kalimantan and Sabah Borneo in lowland and hill forests on small branches at elevations around 400 to 1600 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Miniature to small sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with a short stem enveloped completely by the leaf bases of which there are 5 to 9, linear-oblong to linear-lanceolate, oblique to falcate, unequally bilobed apically leaves that blooms in the spring on to 3, terete, to 6 [15 cm] long, racemose, few to many, successively 1 to 2 flowered inflorescence with each flower node on the rachis dilated into 2 parallel, semi-lanceolate, entire wings or keels and has scale like floral bracts carrying fragrant flowers.
FLOWER SIZE: 1 inch [2.5 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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