Ventricularia tenuicaulis (Hook.f.) Garay 1972

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Common Name

Flower Size .32" [.8 cm]

Found in Thailand and Malaysia in forested limestone areas as a small sized, pendent growing epiphyte with thin, pendulous, laxly leafed stems carrying several, very narrowly lanceolate, unequally acuminate apically, leathery leaves that blooms in the summer

Synonyms Gastrochilus tenuicaulis (Hook.f.) Kuntze 1891; *Saccolabium tenuicaule Hook.f. 1890; Uncifera tenuicaulis (Hook.f.) Holttum 1947

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; A Century of Indian Orchids Vol 5 Hooker 1895 as Saccolabium tenuicaule drawing fide; Flora of Malaya Vol 1 Holttum 1957 as Uncifera tenuicaulis drawing fide; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 as Uncifera tenuicaulis; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Wood 1992 drawing/photo fide; A to Z of South East Asian Orchid Species Vol 1 O'Byrne 2001 photo fide; Wild Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia Ong, O'Byrne, Yong & Saw 2011 photo fide

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