Malleola penangiana (Hook.f.) J.J.Sm. & Schltr. 1913 Photo by The Orchids of Malaya Website
Plant and Flowers Photo by Peter O'Byrne and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
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Common Name The Penang Malleola [A state of Malaysia]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Thailand, Malaysia, Sumatra and Borneo in mixed hill forests on trees by rivers at elevations around 300 meters as a small sized, hot growing epiphyte with an erect stem carrying several narrowly lanceolate, fleshy, gradually narrowing apically, bilobed, acute lobed, abruptly narrowing below into the base leaves that blooms in the late spring and early summer on a stiff, downwards pointing, 1.6 to 5.2" [4 to 13 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence with narrowly triangular, acute floral bracts and carrying fragrant flowers
Synonyms Gastrochilus penangianus (Hook.f.) Kuntze 1891; Saccolabium hendersonii Carr 1929; *Saccolabium penangianum Hook.f. 1890;
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones 22 Hooker f. 1893 Saccolabium pennangianum drawing ok; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Wood 1992 drawing fide; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Cribb & Wood 1994; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001; A to Z of South East Asian Orchid Species Vol 2 O'Byrne 2011 photo fide
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