Collabium simplex Rchb.f. 1881

Plant Photo courtesy of Donald Tan and his Webpage

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Common Name or Meaning The Modest Colladium

Common Name The Insignificant Collabium

Flower Size .14" [3.5 mm]

Found in Penninsular Malaysia, Java, Borneo and Sumatra in lower montane forests at elevations of 1100 to 1400 meters as a small to medium sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with 1 to 3 , elliptic-oblong, shortly acuminate, purple in youth and then light sea-green with darker green blotches, marginally undulate, gradually narrowing below into the petiollate base leaves on somewhat quadrangular and apically narrowed pseudobulbs and then a cylindrical pseudobulb that carries a basal, 10 to 22" [25 to 55 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence with the flowers held at the apex and having, long-triangular floral bracts occuring in the summer.

Synonyms Chrysoglossum simplex (Rchb.f.) J.J.Sm. 1905

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen Von Java J.J.Sm. 1905 as Chrysoglossum simplex; Orchids of Borneo Chan, Shim, Lamb & Wood 1994; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2002