Flickingeria albopurpurea Seidenf. 1980 SECTION Plicates
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
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
