Renanthera vietnamensis

Renanthera vietnamensis is found in northern Vietnam near the Chinese border in rocky, limestone hills and ridges in primary broadleafed and coniferous forests at elevations of 650 to 1200 meters as a small to medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte or lithophyte on rocks beneath the trees with an erect, to ascending woody stem carrying rigid, leathery, apically unequally bilobed, linear- lanceolate, conduplicate towards the base leaves which are held distichously along the upper half that blooms in the spring on an axillary, racemose to few branched, 45 cm long, 10 to 20 flowered inflorescence carrying well spaced, showy, scentless flowers.

Description = ''Renanthera vietnamensis'' | Source = [https://www.flickr.com/photos/nhq9801/9204821403/ 火焰蘭屬 Renanthera vietnamica [香港青松觀蘭花展 Tuen Mun, Hong Kong]] | Date = 2009-04-26 11:52 | Author = [https://www.flickr.com/people/52582306@N03 阿橋 HQ] | Permission = | other_versions={{Extracted from|1=Renanthera vietnamensis -香港青松觀蘭花展 Tuen Mun, Hong Kong- (9204821403).jp}} }} {{Location dec|22.406938|113.972616|source:Flic...