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Orchid Species: Hetaeria finlaysoniana
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Hetaeria finlaysoniana is an orchid species identified by Seidenf. in 1997.
ORIGIN: Found in southwestern Guangxi and Hainan provinces of China, Sri Lanka, Myanmar and Thailand in dense tropical rainforests and seasonal evergreen forests at elevations of 300 to 800 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Medium sized, hot growing terrestrial with an erect stem carrying 4 to 5, scattered all along the stem, oblong to narrowly elliptic, slightly to strongly unequal and acute apically, basally obtuse rounded into the petiolate base leaves that blooms in the fall on a termial, erect, elongate, slender, 6 to 8.8 [15 to 22 cm] long, pubescent, subdensely many flowered with sterile, pink, lanceolate, abaxially weakly pubescent bracts and with pink, lanceolate, slightly shorter than the ovary, abaxially weakly pubescent, acuminate apically floral bracts.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.2 inches [5 mm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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