Appendicula rostellata J.J.Sm.1910 SECTION Chromatodesme Photo by © David Stella and his Flickr Photo Website

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Common Name or Meaning The Beaked Appendicula

Flower Size .25" [7 to 7.3mm]

Found in Borneo in hill and lower montane forests at elevations of 300 to 1500 meters as a small to medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with small to medium sized epiphyte with branching, erect, leafy stems enveloped completely by imbricating leaf bearing sheaths carrying, slightly curved, thin, coriaceous, mid nerve prominent beneath, linear-ligulate to linear-oblong, unequally obtusely bilobulate and mucronate, somewhat basally twisted leaves taht blooms in the late spring and early summer on a terminal, fractiflex, .22" to .4" [.6 to 1 cm] long, 6 to 7 flowered inflorescence with ovate, acute, concave, adpressed, imbricate, semi-pellucid, greenish white floral bracts that are almost as long but not equaling the flowers in length

CAUTION I have no way of verifying this determination so please use with caution. The photo does not allow a certain determination.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchids of Borneo Vol 4 Wood 2003 drawing/photo ok; Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 2 2008; Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 8 2011 drawing ok; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011

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