Flickingeria angulata (Blume) A.D. Hawkes 1965 Photo by © .Dian Rahardjo and her Orchid Photo Page

Common Name The Angled Flickingeria

Flower Size .8" [2 cm]

Found in Java in lower foothills at elevations of 250 to 500 meters as a small to medium sized, hot growing epiphyte with 6 ribbed with age, swollen stems carrying lanceolate, obtuse leaves that blooms in the fall on a terminal, short 1 to 2 flowered inflorescence with simultaneously opening flowers.

Synonyms Callista angulata Kranzl 1891; Dendrobium angulatum Lindl. 1830; Dendrobium hasseltii Rchb.f. 1862; Dendrobium homonymum Steud.1840; *Desmotrichum angulatum Blume 1825; Desmotrichum pristichilum Kraenzl. 1910; Ephemerantha angulata (Blume) P.F.Hunt & Summerh. 1961; Flickingeria pristichila (Kraenzl.) A.D.Hawkes 1965

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen Von Java J.J.Smith 1905; Orchids of Java Comber 1990;

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