!Macropodanthus philippinensis L.O.Williams 1938 Photos courtesy of David Banks, Dr. E.F. de Vogel and Jaap Vermeulen and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website. and Flora Malesiana Vol III

Common Name or Meaning The Philippine Macropodanthus

Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]

Found only in the Philippines at elevations up to 500 meters as a semi-pendulous, miniature sized, hot growing epiphyte with a stem carrying a few, 2 ranked, narrowly oblong-lanceolate, leathery, acute and oblique apically leaves that blooms on an axillary, pendulous, to 15 flowered inflorescence with floral segments that reflex after opening for a day or so.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidiana Philipiniana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984; Orchids of the Philippines Cootes 2001; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003;