Microsaccus griffithii (Parish ex Rchb. f.) Seidenf. 1988 Photo courtesy of © Danny Lentz, plant grown by the Atlanta Botanical Garden

Plant and Flowers Photo by © Milam Vagner

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Common Name Griffith's Microsaccus [English Physician and Orchid Collector in India late 1900's]

Flower Size .15" [3.5mm]

Found in Thailand, Burma, Vietnam, Cambodia, penninsular Malaysia, Borneo, Java, Sumatra and the Philippines in lowland open forests at elevations of [sea-level] 500 to 2000 meters as a miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with and occasionally branching stem carrying arranged in two rows, distichous, imbricating, laterally flattened, mottled, fleshy, ovate, obtuse that sometimes are minutely and unequally bilobed apically leaves leaves and a monopodial stem that requires high humidity and frequent waterings and blooms in the summer and fall from the axils of the leaves with a very short, 2 flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acute floral bracts.

Synonyms Gastrochilus griffithii (C.S.P.Parish & Rchb.f.) Kuntze 1891; Microsaccus griffithii (Parish ex Rchb. f.) Seidenf. 1988; *Saccolabium griffithii Parish ex Rchb. f. 1874

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959 as M brevifolius drawing; Orchids of Java Comber 1990; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994;Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001; Orchids of the Philippines Cootes 2001; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003;