Renanthera monachica
SPECIES
This is a Philippine species from the island of Luzon at elevations up to 500 meters that is a medium sized, hot growing epiphyte with a long stem carrying many, distichous, approximate, ligulate, unequaly and obtusely bilobed apically, coriaceous leaves that blooms on an axillary, suberect, simple, 1 1/2' [45 cm] long, laxly racemose inflorescence that has tubular bracts, occuring in the late winter and spring with many [6 to 30], non-fragrant, long-lasting flowers. It is a monopodial, vandanaceous, medium sized epiphyte with an axillary inflorescence and does best in a wood slat basket with little or no medium.