Smitinandia micrantha

Smitinandia micrantha (Lindl.) Holttum, Gard. Bull. Singapore 25: 106 (1969).

Smitinandia micrantha (Lindl.) Holttum, Photos by Nguyễn Hằng

its native range is Himalaya to China (SW. Yunnan) and Peninsula Malaysia.

Latinh Name: 

Smitinandia micrantha (Lindl.) Holttum

Synonym:

Ceratochilus micranthus (Lindl.) Lindl.

Cleisostoma micranthum (Lindl.) King & Pantl.

Cleisostoma petitiana Guillaumin

Cleisostoma poilanei Gagnep.

Cleisostoma tixieri Guillaumin

Gastrochilus parviflorus Kuntze

Pomatocalpa poilanei (Gagnep.) Tang & F.T.Wang

Saccolabium fissum Ridl.

Saccolabium micranthum Lindl.

Uncifera albiflora Guillaumin

English Name:

The Small Flowered Smitinandia

Thailand name:

Kularb dong

China name:

Gai Hou Lan - 盖喉兰

Description: 

as a small sized, hot to warm, pendant growing epiphyte with an elongated, branching, turning pendulous stem carrying several linear, axillary, unequally and obtusely bilobed apically leaves that blooms in the summer through winter on an lateral, simple, 7 to 17 cm long, densely many flowered inflorescence with triangular-ovate, acute to acuminate floral bracts and the fleshy, successively opening flowers arranged in a spiral

Distribution:

Assam, Bangladesh, Borneo, Cambodia, China South-Central, East Himalaya, India, Laos, Malaya, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, Vietnam, West Himalaya.

Ecological:

Epiphytic on tree trunks in forests; ca. 600 m.

Flowering times:

Blooms in the summer through winter.

Flower size:

1.0 cm.

Cultivation:

Water:  1 – 2 time daily

Light:  bright light

Temperature:  17 - 28°C

Type:

Curtis, C. [s.n.] K000079049 Unknown type material

Griffith, W. [7300], Bhutan K000895740 Unknown type material