Appendicula cristata Blume 1825 SECTION Pododesme

Photo by © Art Vogel

Common Name or Meaning The Callus Appendicula

Flower Size .22" [6 mm]

Found in Sumatra, Java, Borneo and Sulawesi in hill and lower montane forests in damp areas often on mossy trees at elevations of 600 to 1600 meters as a large to giant sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte or terrestrial with flattened, simple to branching stems carrying all in one plane, lanceolate, acute, progressively smaller apically leaves that blooms in the spring on a mostly terminal, often with a few lateral ones close to the stem apex, to 6" [15 cm] long, often branched, successively several flowered inflorescence

This determination is close but differs in the lateral ridge across the mid lobe of the lip as well as in color, otherwise it fit s the descriptions.

Synonyms Appendicula divaricata Ames & C.Schweinf. 1920; Appendicula longipedunculata Rolfe 1899; Conchochilus oppositiflorus Hassk. 1842; Podochilus cristatus (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 fide; Encylopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Orchids of Java Comber 1990 photo close; The Plants of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Orchids Wood Beaman & Beaman 1993 photo fide; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001 photo soso; Orchids of Sarawak Beeman & Wood 2001 photo so-so; Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 2 2008; Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 8 2011 photos good; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 photo ok?

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