Agrostophyllum trifidum Schltr. 1911 SECTION Appendiculopsis
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Common Name or Meaning The Three Pointed Agrostophyllum
Flower Size .36" [9 mm]
Found in Sumatra and Borneo at elevations around 800 meters as a medium sized, warm growing epiphyte with many, close set stems carrying many, 2 ranked, abruptly narrowed and slightly basally twisted, oblong, equally bilobed apically, with a sharp spike in between leaves that blooms on a terminal, in a head of many single flowered inflorescence
CAUTION I have no way of personally verifying this determination so please use with caution
Synonyms Appendiculopsis trifida (Schltr.) Szlach. 1995
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1912; Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 6 321 - 384 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1975; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001; Orchids of Sarawak Beeman & Wood 2001; Orchids of Sarawak Beeman & Wood 2001 as A cf trifidum;
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