Appendicula hexandra (J.König) J.J.Sm. 1932 SECTION Appendicula

Plant and Flowers Photo by © Karel & Alex Petrzelka and the Vietnam Orchid Website

Common Name The Six Appendicula

Flower Size

Found in Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam and Sumatra on densely shady, mossy, vertical cliffs or mossy trees at elevations of 450 to 1400 meters as a small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte or lithophyte with unbranched climbing stems enveloped completely by leaf sheaths carrying numerous, linear-lanceolate, shortly obtuse abn nearly equally bidentate, mucronate, all in the same plane, distichous leaves that blooms on a very short to .8" [2 cm] long, 1 to 3 flowered inflorescence with small flowers

Synonyms Appendicula inornata Guillaumin 1961; Appendicula koenigii Hook.f. 1890; *Epidendrum hexandrum J.König 1791; Podochilus hexandrus (J.König) Schltr. 1900

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Plantarum Vol 22 Hooker 1893 as A koenigii drawing hmm; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959 as A koenigii drawing fide; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2002; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007

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