Dossinia marmorata C.Morren 1848
Plant and Flowers Photo courtesy of Allen Black ©,
Common Name The Marbled Dossinia
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found only in Borneo in lowland and hill forests on limestone with leaf litter and or moss or between rocks and on ledges at elevations of sealevel to 400 meters as a miniature to small sized, hot growing terrestrial orchid with a short, stem with wooly roots and carrying 3 to 5, basally grouped, ovate to broadly elliptic,, fleshy, 5 to 7 nerved, top black green with irridescent pink, greenish yellow to golden reticulation, dorsally pink to purple, abruptly narrowing below into the petiolate base leaves that blooms in the fall, winter and spring on a terminal, erect, laxly to densely many flowered, 9.2 to 24" [23 to 60 cm] long, densely, shortly pubescent inflorescence with narrwoly elliptic, acute to acuminate, densely shortly pubescent, membraneoius, pink floral bracts.
Synonyms Cheirostylis marmorata (C.Morren) Lindl. ex Lem. 1848; Ludisia argyroneura Miq. 1861; Macodes marmorata (C.Morren) Rchb.f. 1858
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Xenia Orchidaceae Rchb.f 1854 as Macodes marmorata drawing fide; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchids of Borneo Wood, Shim & Lamb Vol 4 2003; AOS Bulletin Vol 78 No 5 2009 photo;
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