Flickingeria rhipidoloba (Schltr.) A.D. Hawkes 1965 Photo courtesy of Wolfgang H. Bandisch. Photo By Peter O'ByrneCopyright © 1998, 1999 All rights reserved. And his Papua & New Guinea Orchid Species site

Common Name The Bellows-Shaped Lobe Flickingeria

Flower Size 3/4" [1.9cm]

Found from Australia to New Guinea as a lowland epiphyte of rainforests and rocky cliff faces and in scattered trees in the savannah at elevations of sea-level to 500 meters that have single flowers that appear at the base of the leaf's connection to the psuedobulb arising from a triangular to lanceolate brown bract and occuring at most any time of the year. It is a difficult species to move as the root growth is very slow and it takes a long time to establish.

Synonyms *Dendrobium rhipidolobum Schltr. 1901; Desmotrichum fimbriatum Kraenzl. ? ; Desmotrichum rhipidolobum (Schltr.) A.D. Hawkes 1957; Ephemerantha rhipidiloba (Schltr.) P.F. Hunt & Summerh. 1961

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1985 as *Dendrobium rhipidolobum Schltr. 1901; Flora Malesiana Orchids of New Guinea Vol II Shuiteman and de Vogel 2002