Praecoxanthus Hopper & A.P.Br.
WANOSCG Orchid Fact Sheet
Praecoxanthus
Name and Authority
Common Name
Leafless Orchids
Originally Described by
Stephen Hopper & Andrew Brown in Lindleyana 15:124 (2000)
Flowering Months
· · Mar Apr May · · · · · · ·
Description
Praecoxanthus has a smooth flower stem and a single creamy-white flower with broad, spreading petals and sepals and a green, yellow and red labellum with golden headed lamina calli. Non-flowering plants have a broad, smooth, prominently striped, ground hugging leaf while flowering plants have a leaf that is reduced to a minute bract at the base of the flowering stem.
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