Pennilabium struthio Carr 1930 Photos by © Nitade Chula

Common Name The Ostrich-Like Pennilabium

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

Found in the eastern Himalayas?, Thailand, Malaysia and Borneo? in riverine hill forests at elevations around 500 meters as a miniature sized, hot growing epiphyte with a short stem carrying a few close set, elliptical, unequally bilobed apically, often twisted at the base leaves that blooms in the summer on a short to .4" [1 cm] long, unbranched, flattened, successively 1 to 2, few flowered inflorescence.

CAUTION From what I can gather from the scant information that there is, the difference between this species and P proboscidium is this one does not have hirsute apices of the petals and P proboscidium does, otherwise they are very similar.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Malaya Vol 1 Holttum 1957; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Wood 1992 drawing fide; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Cribb & Wood 1994 excluded taxa; Orchids of Sarawak Beeman & Wood 2001 photo fide; Orchids of Borneo Wood Vol 4 2003 drawing/photo maybe; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007; Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia Ong, O'Byrne, Yong & Saw 2011 photo fide; A to Z of South East Asian Orchid Species Vol 2 O'Byrne 2011 photo fide

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