Trichoglottis fasciata Rchb.f.

 Trichoglottis fasciata Rchb.f., Flora 55: 137 (1872).

Trichoglottis fasciata Rchb.f., Photo by Worranittha Koenig

Trichoglottis fasciata Rchb.f. Photo by Kurt Keller

its native range is Indo-China to W. & Central Malesia.

Latinh Name: 

Trichoglottis fasciata Rchb.f.

Family: 

Orchidaceae Juss.

Synonym:

Staurochilus leytensis (Ames) Christenson

Stauropsis fasciata (Rchb.f.) G.Nicholson

Vandopsis leytensis Ames

Vietnamese name:

Hổ bì

English Name:

The Striped Petal Staurochilus

Thailand name:

Lai suea - Suea Khrong.

Description: 

With an elongate stem carrying many oblong-ligulate, unequally rounded apically leaves that blooms in the spring and summer on a horizontal or ascending, 12 cm long, simple, slightly fractiflex inflorescence with small, triangular-ovate, subacute floral bracts carrying 2 to 8, long-lived, pleasingly fragrant flowers that open in succession.

Distribution:

Borneo, Cambodia, Laos, Malaya, Philippines, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam (Kon Tum, Lâm Đồng, Binh Phước, Bù Gia Mập).

Ecological:

A large sized, scrambling, hot to warm growing epiphyte in evergreen, semi-deciduous and deciduous dry lowland forests and savana-like woodlands at elevations of sealevel to 800 m.

Flowering times:

Blooms in the spring and summer.

Flower size:

5.0 cm.

Cultivation:

Water:  1 – 2 time daily

Light:  light loving, in the shade

Temperature: warm - hot

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