Poaephyllum podochiloides (Schltr.) Ridl. 1916

Closer Flower View Photo courtesy of André Schuiteman, Dr. E.F. de Vogel and Jaap Vermeulenand Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website

Common Name or Meaning The Podochilus-Like Poaephyllum

Flower Size .35" [.6cm]

Found in Borneo and New Guinea in lower montane forests and on limestone at elevations around 80 to 1000 meters as a large sized, hot to warm growing lithophyte on limestone often along streams with several stems carrying 3 to 5, erect-patent, linear-ligulate, unequally bilobulate apically leaves that blooms in the fall on a lateral, 2 to 4 flowered inflorescence.

Synonyms *Eria podochiloides Schltr. 1905; Lectandra podochiloides (Schltr.) Schltr. 1912; Trichotosia podochiloides (Schltr.) Kraenzl. 1911

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1914/85; The Plants of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Orchids Beaman, Wood, Beaman & Beaman 1993; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Flora Malesia Orchids of New Guinea Vol V Shuiteman and de Vogel 2008

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