Flickingeria bancana (J.J.Sm.) A.D.Hawkes 1965 Side View of Flower Photos courtesy of Kjell Nilsson.

Common Name The Bangka Island Flickingeria [An Island Group between Borneo and Sumatra]

Flower Size 3/8" [1.15 cm]

Found in the eastern Himalayas, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei and Kalimantan Borneo as well as Sumatra in lowlands, hill forests and lower montane forests at elevations of 50 to 1900 meters as a miniature to small sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with ovate-lanceolate, elliptic in cross-section, shiny yellow green pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, erect, ovate-lanceolate, obtusely bilobed, shiney above, duller and pale beneath leaf that blooms in the spring on a abaxial, through a bright orange bract and carries a single flower.

Synonyms *Dendrobium bancanum J.J.Sm. 1909; Dendrobium schlechterianum J.J.Sm. 1912; Dendrobium trilamellatum Schltr. 1911; Desmotrichum bancanum (J.J.Sm.) Kraenzl. 1910; Ephemerantha trilamellata P.F.Hunt & Summerh. 1961

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Wood & Seidenfaden 1992; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchids of Sarawak Beaman & Wood 2001; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2007