Podochilus tenuis (Blume) Lindl. 1833 Photo by Malaysian Orchid Website

Another Flower? Photo by © Karel Petrzelka and the Vietnam Orchid Website

Drawing Drawing by J.J.Smith and the Orchid Foundation at the Herbarium Jany Renz

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Common Name The Delicate Podochilus

Flower Size .65" [1.7 cm]

Found in Malaysia, Borneo, Java and Sumatra in damp hill, oak/laurel and lower montane forests at elevations of 700 to 1950 meters as a miniature to small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte occuring in deep shade with numerous, thin, freely branching stems carrying small, acutely angled, narrowly oblong, apiculate leaves that blooms in the fall on a terminal, rarely lateral, short, 3 to 4 flowered inflorescence with ovate, acuminate floral bracts.

CAUTION I am not sure of either of these determinations so please use with caution!

I am sure that the Petrzelka determination is incorrect. I feel that it is much closer to P forficuloides see Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001

Synonyms *Apista tenuis Bl. 1825; Podochilus acicularis Hkr.f 1890

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1857; Icones Planetarum plate 2147 Hkrf. 1893 as P acicularis drawing hmm; Die Orchideen Von Java J.J.Sm. 1905; Die Orchideen Von Java J.J.Sm. 1905; Die Orchideen Von Java Figuren Atlas J.J.Smith 1908 drawing hmm; Flora of Malaya Vol 1 Holttum 1957; Orchids of Java Comber 1990 photo hmmm; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Wood 1992 drawing hmm; The Plants of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Orchids Beaman, Wood, Beaman & Beaman 1993; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001 photo hmm; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 1 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011; Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia Ong, O'Byrne, Yong & Saw 2011 photo fide

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