Flickingeria calocephala Z.H.Tsi & S.C.Chen 1995

Plant and Flowers Photos by © Plant Photo China and Their Chinese Plant Photo Website

Part shade Warm LATESpring EARLYSummer

Common Name or Meaning The Beuatiful Head Flickingeria [refers tothe lip which is upper most in this species as it is mostly non-resupinate]

Flower Size

Found in southern Yunnan China on trees in sparse woods at elevations around 1200 meters as a small sized, warm growing epiphyte with a branching rhizome giving rise to an arching to somewhat pendant, 3 to 4 noded, the apical node swollen and pseudobulbous subcylindric in shape and carrying a single, apical, coriaceous, narrowly oblong leaf that blooms in the late spring and early summer on an axillary, very short, 1 to 2 flowered inflroescence and carrying flowers that are very short-lived

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Native Orchids of China in Colour Singchi, Zhanhuo and Yibo 1999 photo fide;

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