Adenoncos vesiculosa Carr 1932

Lip Detail Photos courtesy of Alex Dewalque

Plant and Inflorescence Photos courtesy of Patricia Harding

Common Name or Meaning The Blistered Adenoncos

Found in penninsular Thailand, Malaysia and Vietnam in semi-deciduous and deciduous dry lowland forests at elevations of sealevel to 700 meters as a monopodial, hot growing epiphyte with a shrt, stout stem carrying very fleshy, strap shaped, conduplicate acute leaves that blooms in the winter on very short, axillary, 1 to 2 flowered inflorescence.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Encylopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 Genus only; The Orchids Of Malaya Holtum 1953 ; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Seidenfaden 7 Wood 1992;