TU wrote:
Thanks Wendy for the reply, but this is a small plant with the stem no
longer than 7cm (3"?) and it has 2 old flower spikes on it. I read
that matutina is a much bigger plant?



Don't know anything about Ren. matutina, but this guy says that it is a
small grower:

http://www.speciesorchids.com/RenantheraSpecies.html

Don't trust anything you read on the internet (or anything I write to
the newsgroup). But the first couple links I followed both said that it
was a small grower.

Now, if I believe the brief description on orchidspecies.com

"A large sized, hot growing vine-like epiphytic native of Thailand,
Sumatra, Java and Malaysia with a long stem carrying many, distant,
oblong or lorate, fleshy, stiff leaves that flowers on an axillary, 2
3/4' to 3' [50 to 90 cm] long, paniculate, many flowered inflorescence
with ovate, reflexed floral bracts and occuring in autumn"

This indicates to me that somebody is wrong. I don't know who. If you
can get hold of the primary reference material, you can figure it out.
As you know, it is not unusual for the wrong name to get assigned to a
species. Somebody propagates it and sells it with the wrong name, and
it stays messed up forever...

If you really have a burning desire to know, send a sample to Selby (a
flower and a description of the vegetative parts of the plant is usually
sufficient). And, most importantly, when you figure it out, let the
person who is wrong know about your results. Heck, let us all know.

Rob

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