Podochilus cultratus Lindl. 1833 Drawing by © G. King and R. Pantling and the Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria

Common Name The Knife Shaped Podochilus [refers to the leaves]

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Assam, eastern Himalayas; Nepal, Myanamar, Thailand and Vietnam at elevations around 390 meters as a miniature sized, hot growing pendant growing epiphyte with a glabrous stem enveloped completely by imbricate, equitant, lanceolate, falcate, acute, many veined leaves that blooms in the spring on a terminal or at the nodes, slender, 1/2" [1.25 cm] long, 2 to 4 flowered inflorescence with broadly ovate-lanceolate, acute to acuminate, cuspidate, floral bracts

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Sikkim-Himalaya Part 1 King & Pantling 1898 drawing fide; Die Orchideen #6 21-24 tafel 7 Rudolph Schlechter 1971 photo ok; The Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002 photo fide; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007

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