Flickingeria forcipata (Kraenzl.) A.D.Hawkes 1965 SECTION Bilobulata Photo by © Vincent Wanua and Orchids Vincent Website

Common Name The Forked Flickingeria [refers to the lip apex]

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in Thailand, Malaysia, Sumatra and Vietnam at elevations of 600 to 1000 meters as a miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte with a branching, terete rhizome with 2 to 2.8" [5 to 7 cm] between each stem giving rise to broadly elliptic, very compressed pseudobulbs carrying elliptic, broadest in the basal half, acute leaves that blooms in the spring on a short, single flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Dendrobium padangense Schltr. 1911; Dendrobium piestobulbon Schltr. 1911; Desmotrichum compressibulbum Carr 1932; *Desmotrichum forcipatum Kraenzl. 1910; Desmotrichum padangense (Schltr.) A.D.Hawkes 1957; Ephemerantha forcipata (Kraenzl.) P.F.Hunt & Summerh. 1961; Ephemerantha piestobolbon (Schltr.) P.F.Hunt & Summerh. 1961; Flickingeria padangensis (Schltr.) A.D.Hawkes 1965; Flickingeria piestobulbon (Schltr.) Brieger 1981

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Wood 1992 drawing fide; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001 photo ok

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