Porpax elwesii (Rchb.f.) Rolfe 1908

Description:  Found in Cambodia on rocks near mountain stream. Also found in Assam, Bhutan, Thailand, Malaysia, Laos and Vietnam on open vertical cliffs at elevations of 700 to 1600 meters as a miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte or lithophyte with densely clustered, flattened, globose-turbinate to discoid-lenticular, Hershey-kiss-like, green with brown veins pseudobulbs enveloped basally by a fibrous membrane carrying, 2, apical, elliptic oblong, mucronate, grooved, shortly petiolate leaves that appear after flowering and blooms in the early summer on a terminal, short to 2" [2.5 to 5 cm], one flowered inflorescence that arises from the apex of the pseudobulb.

Photorights: Cedric Jancloes

• Size:  pseudobulbs round , flat, barely 1cm in diameter, 2 leaves, leaves about 2.5cm long, narrowly elliptic, acute, tube of flower about 1.2cm long, only the tips of the sepals free and spreading slightly, petals shorter than sepals, entirely enclosed in the tube, lip short ,rather  indistinctly 3 lobed, side lobes erect and rounded , mid lobe oblong, bluntly pointed. Column short, the curved foot twice as long as the column.
• Collector/Witnesses:  Cedric Jancloes
• Year Collected:  2010
• Growing Media:  wood/rock
• Flowering Period:  november
• Color:  dull brown, solitary, almost stalkless, 
• Water:  1 – 2 time daily
• Light:  shade – bright light
• Temperature:  10 - 32°C