Malleola dentifera J.J. Sm. 1927 Photo by © Lourens Grobler

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Common Name or Meaning The Toothed Malleola - In China Chui Zhu Lan

Flower Size 3/8" [.7 cm]

Found in southern Hainan and Yunnan provinces of China, Thailand, Borneo, Vietnam, penninsular Malaysia and Sumatra on tree trunks in forests at elevations of 600 to 700 meters as a medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with elongate pendulous stems with the apices arising enveloped by basal leaf bearing sheaths carrying, several, narrowly lanceolate, oblique apically, slightly undulate leaves that blooms in the summer on an axillary, lateral to pendulous, dense and many flowered, 3.6" [9.1 cm] long, ribbed inflorescence that blooms in the summer with an axillary, short, several [10] flowered inflorescence.

Synonyms Ascochilus vietnamensis Guillaumin 1964; Malleola vietnamensis (Guillaumin) Guillaumin 1964

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959 drawing fide; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Wood 1992 drawing fide; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011

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