Abdominea minimiflora (Hook. f.) J.J. Sm. 1917 Photo courtesy of Andy's Orchids Copyright © 2002 All rights reserved.

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Common Name The Tiny flowered Abdominea

Flower Size 1/8" [.45 cm}

Found in Selangor, Perak and Pahang, Malaysia, Borneo, Bali, Java and the Philippines in humid, lowland and hill forests at elevations of 300 to 1000 meters on mossy tree trunks as a miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte or lithophyte on limestone with a short, erect to pendant stem completely enveloped by distichous leaf bearing sheaths and carrying 2 ranked, strap-shaped, unequally bidetate apically, plicate, leaves that are basally narrowed to a short petiole that blooms on an erect to spreading, very slender, racemose, to 4 3/4" [12cm] long, many flowered inflorescence that occurs at any time of the year.

Synonyms Abdominea micrantha J.J.Sm. 1914; Gastrochilus minimiflorus (Hook.f.) Kuntze 1891; *Saccolabium minimiflorum Hook. f. 1890; Schoenorchis minimiflora (Hook.f.) Ames 1915; Schoenorchis philippinensis Ames 1915

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Malaysia Vol 1 Holtum 1953; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959 drawing fide; Encylopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Orchids of Java Comber 1990; Orchidiana Philippiana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Seidenfadden & Wood 1992; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchids of Borneo Wood, Shim & Lamb Vol 4 2003; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003