Appendicula ramosa Blume 1825 SECTION Oligodesme Photo by © Peter O'Byrne

Plant Photos courtesy of © Rici Ricardo

Common Name The Branched Appendicula

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Java in moist forests on tree trunks, rocks and damp banks at elevations of 800 to 1000 meteres as a hot to warm growing epiphyte with pendulous, creeping, basally rooting, freely branching at mid stems carrying 10, apiculate, smaller on side branches, basally twisted, all in one plane leaves that are held at a 45 degree angle to the stem that blooms in the summer on a terminal and lateral, successively single flowered inflorecence

Synonyms Podochilus ramosus {Bl.] Schlechter 1900

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1857; Die Orchideen Von Java J.J.Sm. 1905; Die Orchideen Von Java Figuren Atlas J.J.Smith 1908 drawing fide; Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1912/85; Orchids of Java Comber 1990 photo fide; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001 photo fide;

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