Flickingeria fugax (Rchb.f.) Seidenf. 1980

Plant and Flower Photos courtesy of © Peter O'Byrne, Jaap Vermeulen, Dr. E.F. de Vogel, and André Schuiteman and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website

Common Name or Meaning The Fading Flickingeria

Flower Size 5/8" [1.6 mm]

Found in Assam, Easten Himalayas, Bhutan, Sikkim, Myanamar, Thailand, Laos and Vietnam in deciduous and semi-evergreen forests at elevations up to 2000 meters as a large sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with a terete, branching stem carrying an elliptic, smooth pseudobulb partially enveloped basally by an evanescent leaf less sheath and carrying a single, apical erect, narrowly elliptic, acute, gradually narrowing below into the base leaf that blooms in the summer on a short, single flowered inflorescence arising from near the apex of the bulb and held close to the leaf base.

Synonyms Callista fugax (Rchb.f.) Kuntze 1891; *Dendrobium fugax Rchb.f. 1871; Dendrobium roseopunctatum Ridl. 1896; Dendrobium sordidum King & Pantl. 1897; Desmotrichum roseopunctatum (Ridl.) Ridl. 1924

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list IPNI ; Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/1995 as Dendrobium fugax; Orchid Flora of Kamrup District Assam Iswar Chandra Barua 2001; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2007