Fox Brush Orchid is a dwarf orchid species with
crystalline pink, spotted magenta, fragrant flowers to 2cm. The spikes are
arching to pendulous, to about 25cm long with many flowers. They occur
mainly in Asia : the Indian subcontinent, Nepal, Southern China, SE Asia,
the Philippines, New Guinea. They form pendulous racemes with many
fragrant, long-lasting, waxy flowers, in white, (rarely) yellow, purple
or pink colors, with a forward facing spur, growing on stout many-leaved
stems from the leaf axils. The leaves grow distichously (in two vertical
rows) The leaf margins are bilobed, while the apex is emarginate.
Identification credit: Rahul Prabhu Khanolkar
Photographed in Maharashtra.
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