Flickingeria xantholeuca (Rchb.f.) A.D.Hawkes 1965 Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt.

Common Name The Yellow and White Flickingeria

Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]

Found in Thailand, Malaysia, Java, Borneo and Sumatra at elevations of sealevel to 1000 meters as a miniature to small sized, hot growing epiphyte with close set, many branched stems carrying gradually lengthening, ribbed pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, erect, lanceolate, acuminate, acute, leaves that blooms in the spring on a short, abaxil single flowered inflorescence.

Synonyms Callista lonchophylla (Hook.f.) Kuntze 1891; Callista xantholeuca (Rchb.f.) Kuntze 1891; Dendrobium lonchophyllum Hook.f. 1890; Dendrobium pallidiflorum Ridl. 1896; *Dendrobium xantholeucum Rchb.f. 1865; Desmotrichum lonchophyllum (Hook.f.) Kraenzl. 1910; Desmotrichum pallidiflorum (Ridl.) Kraenzl. 1910; Desmotrichum xantholeucum (Rchb.f.) Kraenzl. 1910; Ephemerantha lonchophylla (Hook.f.) P.F.Hunt & Summerh. 1961; Ephemerantha xantholeuca (Rchb.f.) P.F.Hunt & Summerh. 1961; Flickingeria lonchophylla (Hook.f.) A.D.Hawkes 1965

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Malaya Holttum 1957 as *Dendrobium xantholeucum ; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Wood & Seidenfaden 1992; Orchids of Java Comber 1990; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001, Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003; The Dendrobium H Wood 2006