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Renanthera monachica (Renanthera monachica)

Description

It is a medium-sized plant, which prefers the warm climate, with epiphytic , monopodial habits that grows with a long stem that carries many distichous leaves, ligulate, unequally and obtusely apical, bilobed, and coriaceous. It flowers in an axillary inflorescence, suberect, simple, 45 cm long and laxly racemose that has tubular bracts, it is produced at the end of winter and in the spring with 6 to 30 flowers, non-aromatic and long-lasting. It is a vandanaceous, medium-sized epiphyte with an axillary inflorescence and develops best in a wooden basket with little or no middle slats.

Taxonomic tree

  • Domain: Eukarya

    • Kingdom: Plantae

      • Phylum: Magnoliophyta

        • Class: Liliopsida

          • Order: Asparagales

            • Family: Orchidaceae

              • Genus: Renanthera