Agrostophyllum longifolium (Blume) Rchb.f. 1857 SECTION Agrostophyllum Drawing by Peter O'Byrne

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Common Name or Meaning The Long-Leaved Agrostophyllum

Flower Size 1/3" [7.5 mm]

Found in Thailand, penninsular Malaysia, Java, Sumatra, Borneo, the Moluccas and Sulawesi in lowlands and lower montane forests forests at elevations of sealevel to 1100 meters as a medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with .8 to 1.6" [2 to 4 cm] between each leaf bearing stem carrying strap-shaped to narrowly oblong, minutely bidentate apically leaves that blooms in the late winter on a terminal, globose head made up of 4 to 5 flowered inflorescence

CAUTION Although this photo matches most of the references fairly closely it has only 2 flowers and normally this speceis has a head of a few inflorescence each with 3 to 4 flowers so this one is atypical.

Synonyms *Appendicula longifolia Blume 1825

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen Von Java J.J.Smith 1905; Die Orchideen Von Java Figuren Atlas J.J.Smith 1908 drawing good [according to Seidenfaden this drawing is A laxum]; Orchids of Java Comber 1990 photo good; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Wood & Seidenfadden 1992 drawing fide; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchids of Sarawak Beeman & Wood 2001; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001 photo good;

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