~Plocoglottis acuminata Blume 1849 - See Plocoglottis plicata (Roxb.) Ormerod 2001 Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding

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Common Name The Gradually-Tapering Point Plocoglottis

Flower Size 1/2 to 3/4" [1.2 to 1.7 cm]

Found in Java, Borneo, Sumatra, Sulawesi, Moluccas, Laos? and the Philippines as a medium-sized, hot to warm growing terrestrial at elevations around 300 to 1200 meters in lowland and mixed montane rainforests in deep shade in alluvial soils with sandstone, limestone and shales in dense shade with cylindrical, several noded pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, erect, elliptic to ovate, acuminate, longly petiolate leaf that blooms in the summer on an erect, laerally from the nodes on the lower part of the pseudobulb, laxly few to many flowered, 18" [50 cm] long, pubescent, racemose, terete inflorescence with acuminate, lanceoelate bracts and successively opening flowers. The correct name for this species is most likely Plocoglottis plicata [Roxb.] Ormerod 2002 because Limodorum plicata Roxb was described in 1832 and is the basionym for P plicata beating out P acuminata by 17 years

Synonyms Limodorum plicatum Roxb. 1832; Plocoglottis plicata (Roxb.) Ormerod 2001; Plocoglottis latifolia Blume 1849

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Java Comber 1990; Orchids of Borneo Chan, Shim, Lamb & Wood 1994 as P acuminata; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2002 as P plicata

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