Flickingeria convexa (Blume) A.D. Hawkes 1965 SECTION BilobulataPhoto courtesy of Wolfgang H. Bandisch. Photo By Peter O'ByrneCopyright © 1998, 1999 All rights reserved. And his Papua & New Guinea Orchid Species site
Plant in situ Thailand Photos by © David Kuehn
Common Name The Convex Petal Flickingeria - The Piggyback Orchid
Flower Size 1/2" [1.2 cm]
Found from Malaysia and Indonesia, to North Australia in mangrove and sago swamps at sealevel and low-lying swamp forest at elevations around 600 to 800 meters, on trunks and branches of trees. It blooms in the fall and winter in nature on a short, single flowered, green inflorescence arising from a deltoid yellow brown bract seated at the leaf axil. The distinctive flower lasts for less than a day. The spindle shaped pseudobulbs are carried on the rhizome about 4" apart. Each pseudobulb has a single oblong, thick, fleshy, obtuse to shortly indented, green to black beneath leaf. Needs to be mounted to accomodate the creeping growth habit.
Synonyms Abaxianthus convexus (Blume) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones 2002; Callista convexa (Bl.) Kuntze 1891; Dendrobium convexum [Bl.] Lindl. 1830; *Desmotrichum convexum Blume 1825; Ephemerantha convexa (Blume) P.F. Hunt & Summerh. 1961
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Xenia Orchidaceae vol 2 Rchb.f 1862 as Dendrobiumconvexa drawing; Die Orchideen Von Java J.J.Sm. 1905 as Dendrobium convexum; Orchids of Java Comber 1990; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001; Flora Malesiana Orchids of New Guinea Vol II Shuiteman and de Vogel 2002; The Dendrobiums H. P. Wood 2006; Native Orchids of Australia Jones 2006 as Abaxianthus convexus
