Ascochilopsis myosurus (Ridl.) Carr 1929 Photos courtesy of Nik Fahmi and his Vortex Orchid PageCopyright ©

Plant and Flowers Photo courtesy of Peter O'Byrne, André Schuiteman, Dr. E.F. de Vogel, and Jaap Vermeulen and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website

Common Name The Mouse-Tail Like Aschochilopsis [refers to the appearance of the swollen rhachis of the inflorescence]

Flower Size 1/6" [4 mm]

Found in Penninsular Malaysia and Thailand as a miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte with branching stems carrying up to 10, apical, narrow, unequally bilobed, basally gradually narrowing leaf that blooms in the spring on a 1 to 2" [2.5 to 5 cm] long, fleshy, apically thick inflorescence with the short-lived close set, resupinate flowers arising from the hollows in the swollen rhachis 1 to 4 open at a time

Synonyms *Saccolabium myosurus Ridl. 1870

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Encylopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia Seidenfaden & Woods 1992 drawing fide; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001

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