Notable Specimens | The Queen Sirikit Botanical Garden, Chang Mai, Thailand. |
Habitat | Myanmar, Thailand, Laos. |
Leaf Description | Leaves initially black-pubescent, later glabrous, tightly cover the internodes. Young leaves are produced distally, whilst old leaves are shed from below as the shoot grows. |
Flower Description | The strongly fragrant flowers each measure 1.5-3.5 cm across, they are resupinate and remarkably persistent, lasting for 1-2 months. The sepals and petals are white and relatively broad, the lateral sepals forming a saccate mentum at base. |
Fruit Description | The fruit is a unilocular capsule dehiscing by longitudinal slits. |