Podochilus gracilis (Blume) Lindl. 1833 Drawing by J.J.Smith and the Orchid Foundation at the Herbarium Jany Renz

Common Name The Graceful Podochilus

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in Sumatra, Java, Borneo and the Lesser Sunda Islands in moist shady areas at elevations of 600 to 1700 meters as a Medium sized, hot to warm growing trunk epiphyte with an elongate, creeping, freely branching stem carrying 2 ranked, lanceolate, a long drawn out point at the apex, green to reddish leaves that blooms in the late winter on a terminal, very short, 1 to 2 flowered inflorescence enveloped by imbricate sheaths and has oval, acute floral bracts.

Synonyms *Platysma gracilis Blume 1825

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen Von Java J.J.Smith 1908; Die Orchideen Von Java Figuren Atlas J.J.Smith 1908 drawing fide; Orchids of Java Comber 1990 photo ok; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001 photo fide;

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