Microsaccus truncatus Carr 1932 Photos courtesy of © André Schuiteman, Dr. E.F. de Vogel and Jaap Vermeulen © and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website

Full ShadeHot Summer

Common Name The Truncate Microsaccus

Flower Size

Found in penninsular Malaysia as a mini-miniature sized, hot growing epiphyte with a short stem carrying sevral imbricate, linear, narrowing slightly towards the blunt apex leaves that blooms in the summer on a short, 1 to 2 flowered inflorescence

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Wood & Seidenfadden 1992

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