Podochilus microphyllus Lindl. 1833
Plant ensitu Photos courtesy of © Jaap Vermeulen, Peter O'Byrne, Dr. E.F. de Vogel and André Schuiteman and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website
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Common Name or Meaning The Small Leafed Podochilus
Flower Size .15" [4mm]
Found in Cambodia, Myanamar, Thailand, Vietnam, Borneo, Java, Malaysia and Sumatra in shady forests in lowlands at elevations of 60 to 1000 meters as a miniature sized, hot growing epiphyte with a pendant, freely branching stem carrying many, 2 ranked, oblong, apiculate green to redish leaves that blooms in the winter through late spring on a terminal, sometimes lateral, thin, fractiflex, to .2" [1 cm] long, 2 to 6 flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acute floral bracts and small flowers
Synonyms Podochilus confusus J.J.Sm. 1927
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/1995; Flora of Malaya Vol 1 Holttum 1957 drawing fide; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959 drawing; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Orchids of Java Comber 1990; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Wood & Seidenfaden 1992; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Lindleyana Vol 15 No 4 2000; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001 as Podochilus microphyllum; Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia Ong, O'Byrne, Yong & Saw 2011 photo fide
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