Appendicula alba Blume 1825 SECTION Chaunodesme

Photo by © Peter O'Byrne

Common Name or Meaning The White Appendicula

Flower Size

Found in Sumatra, Java, Lesser Sunda Island and the Philippines at elevations of 300 to 1800 meters as a large to giant sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with very close set, erect to horizontal stems carrying in youth many, along the whole length of the stem, lanceolate, minutely bidentate apically, apically smalll leaves that blooms in the summer and fall on a terminal on younger leafy stems and lateral on older leafless stems, mostly pendulous, to 2.2" [5.5 cm] long, 1 to 3 flowered inflroescence with lanceolate, acute floral bracts.

I have my doubts about this determination please use with caution!

Synonyms Podochilus albus (Blume) Schltr. 1900

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen Von Java J.J.Sm. 1905; Die Orchideen Von Java Figuren Atlas J.J.Smith 1908 drawing ok; Orchids of Java Comber 1990 photo fide; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001 photo fide; Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 8 2011

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