Appendicula biloba J.J.Sm. 1909 SECTION Cyphochilus Photo courtesy of André Schuiteman, Dr. E.F. de Vogel, and Jaap Vermeulen and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website

Plant and Flowers Photo by Art Vogel

Common Name or Meaning The Two Lobed Appendicula

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in New Guinea in lowland forests as a large sized, hot growing terrestrial with erect, curved, mostly unbranched, terete stems, that are basally enveloped by leaf sheathsd and leafy above carrying, patent, half clasping the stem, lanceolate, acuminate, narrowly bidentate and mucronate apically, almost plicate, grooved above at midrib, keeled below, shiney above, opaque below leaves that blooms in the fall on a terminal and lateral, patent, decurved, sometimes few branched, many flowered, 1.8" to 2.2" [4.5 to 5.5 cm] long inflorescence with long lasting flowers

Synonyms Appendicula biloba var. angustifolia J.J.Sm. 1935; Appendicula biloba var. biloba.; Cyphochilus bilobus (J.J.Sm.) Schltr. 1912;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Malesiana Orchids of New Guinea Vol III Shuiteman and de Vogel 2006

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