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Orchid Species: Renanthera citrina
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Renanthera citrina is an orchid species identified by Aver. in 1997.
ORIGIN: Found in Vietnam in humid, mossy, mixed and coniferous forests on lower mossy trunks of old gnarled trees at elevations of 650 to 1200 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte or occasional lithophyte on mossy rock bluffs with a pendulous and ascending, short, woody stem carrying lanceolate to narrowly lanceolate, rigid, leathery, curved, unequally bilobed apically, sessile, articulated leaves that blooms in the winter on an erect to inclined, racemose to 2 branched, to 18 [45 cm] long, simultaneously to 25 flowered inflorescence with small triangular floral bracts and odorless flowers.
FLOWER SIZE: 2.4 inches [6 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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