Plocoglottis javanica Blume 1825 Photo courtesy of Tan Eng Tiek

Another Color Form Photos courtesy of Donald Tan

Plant in situ Cameron Highlands Photos courtesy of David Kuehn

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Common Name The Java Plocoglottis

Flower Size 1 1/5" [3 cm]

Found in Malaysia, Java and Sumatra as a medium sized, hot to warm growing terrestrial near rivers in lowland and lower montane forests at elevations of sealevel to 300 meters with sheath-bearing terete pseudobulbs when young carrying a single apical, plicate, elliptic, acuminate, acute, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer on an erect, to 2' [60 cm] long, finely pubescent, successively several flowered inflorescence with lanceolate floral bracts.

Synonyms Plocoglottis fimbriata Tejsm. & Binn 1858

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen Von Java J.J.Sm. 1905; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2002