Epigeneium nakaharaei [Schlechter] Summerhayes 1957 SECTION Epigeneium
Photo courtesy of Linda & Mikael Karlbom in Stockholm/Sweden and their website
Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding.
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Common Name The Waxen Flower Epigeneium - In China Tai Wan Hou Chun Lan
Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]
Found in Taiwan and Vietnam in the central mountain range in broad leaved forests at elevations of 300 to 2400 meters as a miniature sized, hot to cold growing epiphytic orchid with many-angled, creeping, obliquely ovate pseudobulbs carrying a single, terminal, coriaceous, oblong to ovate, dark green, lustrous leaf that blooms in the fall and winter on a terminal, short, .4 to 1" [1 to 2.5 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence with short-lived, slightly fragrant, waxy flowers that is subtended by a brown basal sheath.
This species is often cited as synomonous with E sanseiense but there are many obvious visual differences in the photos that I have so I will leave them separate at this time until I can verify if the E sanseiense photos are correct.
Synonyms *Dendrobium nakaharaei Schlechter 1906
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidaceae Monandre-Dendrobiinae Fr. Kraenzlin 1910 as Dendrobium nakaharaei; Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1912 as Dendrobium nakaharae; Native Orchids of Taiwan Tsan-Piao Lin 1975 as Dendrobium nakaharai drawing not = E fargesii/photo to E nakaharai fide; Dansk Botanisk Arkiv Bind 34, NR 1 Seidenfaden 1980; Miniature Orchids Northern 1980 as Dendrobium nakaharai; Orchid Species Culture; Dendrobium Bakers 1996 as Dendrobium nakaharaei; Australian Orchid Review Vol 68 No 5 2003 photo; A field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2005 photo fide; The Dendrobiums H. P. Wood 2006 photo fide; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009; Mille et Une Mini Orchideees Roguenant 2009 photo fide; A Compendium of Miniature Orchid Species Vol 1 Parsons & Gerritsen 2013 as Dendrobium nakaharae photo fide; Taiwania 64(2): 176-188 New Orchids (Orchidaceae) in the Flora of Vietnam I. Epidendroideae K.S. Nguyen and L. Averyanov 2019 drawing/photo fide
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