Saccolabium pusillum Blume 1825 Photo by Orchid Enthusia and their © Malaysian Orchid Website

Common Name The Very Tiny Flowered Sacolabium

Flower Size .2" [6 mm]

Found in Sumatra and Java in moist forests at elevations of 1000 to 2000 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with a sometimes branching, horizontal to semi-pendulous with upturned apex stem carrying lanceolate, grey-green, oblique leaves that blooms in the fall on many very short, single flowered inflorescence all along the stem.

Synonyms Gastrochilus pusillus (Blume) Kuntze 1891

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Die Orchideen Von Java J.J.Sm. 1905; Die Orchideen Von Java Figuren Atlas J.J.Smith 1908 drawing fide; Orchids of Java Comber 1990 photo fide;

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