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Bishop mitre seidenfadenia (Seidenfadenia mitrata)

Description

This small, hot to warm growing, epiphytic species is a monopodial orchid that has a short stem carrying pendant, semi-terete, grooved on the top, acuminate leaves with an axillary, erect, few to many [10+] flowered, to 6" [15 cm] long, yet shorter than the leaves, unbranched inflorescence with triangular-ovate bracts that blooms in the spring and has sweetly fragrant flowers and is found in Myanamar and Thailand at elevations of 100 to 800 meters.

Taxonomic tree

  • Domain: Eukarya

    • Kingdom: Plantae

      • Phylum:

        • Class: Liliopsida

          • Order: Asparagales

            • Family: Orchidaceae

              • Genus: Seidenfadenia