Flickingeria luxurians (J.J.Sm.) A.D.Hawkes 1965 SECTION Plicates

Flower Closeup Photos courtesy of Dr. E.F. de Vogel, André Schuiteman and Jaap Vermeulen and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website

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Common Name or Meaning The Luxurious Flickingeria

Flower Size 3/4" [2 cm]

Found in Borneo, Java, Malysia and the Phillipines in riverine forests at elevations of sealevel to 1000 meters as a large sized, hot to warm growing terrestrial orchid with an elongate rhizome giving rise to narrowly elliptic, compressed pseudobulbs enveloped basally by leafless sheaths that becomes fibery in time and carry a single, apical erct, broadly elliptic, acute, gradually narrowing below into the short petiolate base leaf that blooms on an axillary, or from nodes distant from pseudobulbs, short, single flowered inflorescence carrying short livewd flowers.

Synonyms *Dendrobium luxurians J.J.Sm. 1921; Desmotrichum luxurians (J.J.Sm.) Carr 1932; Ephemerantha luxurians (J.J.Sm.) P.F.Hunt & Summerh. 1961

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidiana Philipiniana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Woods and Seidenfaden 1992; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994;Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003; The Dendrobiums H. P. Wood 2006