Malleola witteana (Rchb. f.) J.J. Sm. & Schltr. ex Schltr 1913 Photo by © .Dian Rahardjo and her Orchid Photo Page

Common Name Witte's Malleola

Flower Size .2" [6mm]

Found in Penninsular Malaysia, Borneo, Java and Sumatra in lower montane forests at elevations of 750 to 1500 meters as a small to medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with pendulous, apically turning erect, stems carrying many, elliptic, rigid, green above, violet below, margins undulate, unequally and obtusely bilobed apically leaves that blooms in the fall on a pendant, to 10" [25 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Saccolabium kinabaluense Rolfe 1914; *Saccolabium witteanum Rchb. f. 1883

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Malaya Vol 1 Holttum 1953; Orchids of Java Comber 1990; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Wood 1992; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001

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