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Originally Posted by euplusia
A quick search revealed that Schoenorchis seidenfadenii was first described by the Indian author PRADHAN, Udai Chandra, in the year 1978 in an article for the American Orchid Society Bulletin, Vol. 47, 1978, p. 910 - 912, together with Schoenorchis fragrans and manipurensis. The article is titled 'Notes on the Indian Sarcanthinae - The genus Schoenorchis'.
The Swiss Orchid Foundation keeps both as valid separate species.
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Thank you for the input.
Here is a extract of the article from E. A. Christenson
"Schoenorchis fragrans (Par. & Rchb.f.) Seidenf. & Smit. — This species,
in cultivation for less than a decade, has gone through several names in the
horticultural trade. Plants initially were shipped by Indian exporters under
the erroneous name Smitinandia ambikianum. This species is clearly not a
Smitinandia Holtt. A second name was added by Pradhan (1978), who
considered plants of this species from India to be distinct from the Burmese
plants described by Parish and Reichenbach as well as from the Thai material
mentioned by Seidenfadcn and Smitinand (1963, 4(1)). Pradhan named the
Indian plants Schoenorchis manipurensis after Manipur, India. Comparison of
fresh material from Manipur with Parish's illustration of the type of S.
fragrans at Vienna shows these two concepts, S. fragrans and 5'.
manipurensis, to be identical. Thai material, provided with the name S.
seidenfadenii U. C. Pradhan, is conspecific and also is reduced to synonymy under S. fragrans. Pradhan agrees with this position (personal
communication). "
Schoenorchis sedenfadenii
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