Microsaccus ampullaceus J.J.Sm. 1922

Plant and Flowers Photos by © James Comber and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name The Vein Like Microsaccus

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Malaysia, Sumatra and Borneo in podsol forests at elevtions of 1200 to 1300 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte with a pendulous, branching stem carrying obliquely oblong-triangular, acuminate, acute, shortly split above the base leaves that blooms in the fall on an axillary, very short, 2 flowered inflorescence

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Floora of Malaya Vol 1 Holttum 1957 drawing good; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Wood 1992 drawing ok; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001 photo fide; Wild Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia Ong, O'Byrne, Yong & Saw 2011 photo fide

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------