Pomatocalpa kunstleri (Hook. f.) J.J. Sm. 1912

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Common Name Kunstler's Pomatocalpa [Orchid Collector and Illustrator in Malaya 1800's]

Flower Size .3" [7 mm]

Found in Thailand, Penin. Malaysia, Sumatra, Jawa, Borneo, Maluku Is. and The Phillipines at elevations of sealevel to 1100 meters in lowland podosol forests as a miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte or lithophyte on limestone with a rather short, stout stem carrying to 25 dull-grey green, erect leaves that are apically rounded and unequally bilobed and blooms spring on a branched, erect, slender, finely pilose, 10 to 16" [25 to 40 cm] long, inflorescence with shortly triangular, acute floral bracts carrying densly clustered, small, non-resupinate, wide-opening flowers.

Synonyms *Cleisostoma kunstleri Hook. f. 1894; Pomatocalpa merrillii Schltr. 1913; Saccolabium pubescens Ridl. 1896

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen Von Java J.J.Sm. 1905 cleisostoma kunstleri; The Orchids of Thailand Seiddenfaden & Smitinand 1959 drawing fide; Orchidiana Philipiniana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984 as P merrilii; Orchids of Java Comber 1990; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001; Lindleyana Vol 17 No 1 2002; Orchids of Borneo Wood, Shim & Lamb Vol 4 2003; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003; AOS Bulletin Vol 73 No 3 2004; Flora Malesiana: Orchids of New Guinea Vol 5 Schuiteman & D de Vogel 2008

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