Flickingeria albopurpurea Seidenf. 1980 SECTION Plicates

Plant and Flowers

Side View of Flower Photos courtesy of © Peter O'Byrne,Dr. E.F. de Vogel, Jaap Vermeulen, and André Schuiteman and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website

Part sun Hot Warm Spring

Common Name or Meaning The White and Purple Flickingeria

Flower Size .6" [1.8cm]

Found in Chinese Himalayas, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam on trees in sparse woods or on rocks along ravines at elevations of 800 to 1700 meters as a small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with basally terete medianally to apically swollen, rugose pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, erect, linear, apically acute to obtuse, basally narrowing into the clasping base leaf that bloom on a terminal, short, single flowered infloresence with extremely short lived flowers.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Wild Orchids of China Tsi, Chen & Mori 1997; A Field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand 2001; The Dendrobium HP Wood 2006