Malleola constricta Ames 1915 Photos courtesy of Jim Cootes, Dr. E.F. de Vogel and Jaap Vermeulen and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website. and Flora Malesiana Vol III

Common Name or Meaning The Constricted Malleola [refers to the spur]

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found only in the Philippines at elevations of 60 to 700 meters as a miniature sized, pendulous, hot growing epiphyte with a pendulous, fractiflex stem enveloped by withered, persistent sheaths carrying a 6 to 12, very leathery, alternate, narrowly oblong, velvetlike leaves that blooms on a pendulous, opposite the leaves, 1.4" to 3.6" [4 to 9 cm] long, to 50 flowered inflorescence with lanceolate bracts.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidiana Philipiniana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984; Orchids of the Philippines Cootes 2001 photo fide; Australian Orchid Review Vol 66 No 3 2001 photo; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003;

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