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Anoectochilus frederici-augusti is an orchid species identified by Rchb.f. in 1860. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Anoectochilus regalis.
ORIGIN: Found in the eastern Himalayas, Assam, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, western Himalayas, Bhutan, Thailand, Laos, Yunnan China, Vietnam, Java and Sumatra in shady broad leafed, evergreen, humid primary forests in soils dampened by mists and splash along steep watercourses at elevations of 300 to 1800 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Miniature to small sized, hot to cool growing terrestrial orchid in rich humus in damp crevasses with subcordate to ovate-acute, velvety, dark lime-green reticulated with gold leaves that are purple black on the underside that blooms in the fall on a glandular-pubescent, 10 [25 cm] long, 2 to 15 [rarely single] flowered inflorescence with ovate, 1 to 3 veined, glandular pubescent dorsally bracts carrying successively opening flowers .
FLOWER SIZE: Less than 3/4 inch [less than 1.85 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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