Phalaenopsis mysorensis
A miniature epiphytic Phalaenopsis from southern India and Sri Lanka, close to P. deliciosa, with a few leathery leaves and tiny white flowers about 6–7 mm across. It grows on moss-covered trunks in humid pockets on isolated hills in otherwise dry country, and it drops its leaves in the dry season. It is rarely cultivated. The key to growing it is a mounted plant with moisture at the roots and a drier, leafless rest.
Where it grows wild
Wikipedia describes a miniature epiphyte with flat green roots, a very short stem and two to four leathery, oblong-elliptic leaves. It grows in wet, humid niches on moss-covered tree trunks and branches on isolated hills in the dry and intermediate zones. The leaves are deciduous, falling in the dry season. One Indian label calls it 'locally common on forest trees'.
No elevations are recorded. The isolated hills of Karnataka and north-central Sri Lanka where it grows are mostly a few hundred to about 1,000 m. The moss-covered niches suggest spots cooled and moistened by mist or shade.
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