Appendicula clemensiorum J.J.Wood 2008 SECTION Chaunodesme

Drawing by Linda Gurr

Common Name The Clemens' Appendicula [American Reverend Joseph and Mary Strong Clemens plant collectors on Mt Kinabalu 1900's ]

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Sabah Borneo on Mt Kinabalu at elevations around 1200 meters as a medium sized, cool growing epiphyte with a branching, leafy stem carrying narrowly oblong-ligualte to narrowly elliptic, minutely equally to unequally bilobed apcially, with a tiny mucro in the sinus, finely striate leaves that blooms in the winter on an erect to spreading, terminal, , peduncle .08 to .12" [2 to 3 mm] long, enveloped by pale greyish brown sheaths, rachis .6 to .72" [1.5 to 1.8 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence with ovate to oblong-ovate, obtuse, mucronate, concave, involute margins, prominently nerved, strongly reflexed, half as long as the ovary floral bracts and carrying green flowers with the apex of the lip brown.

Similar to A pendula but distinguished by the shorter, narrower, narrowly oblong-ligulate to narrowly elliptic leaves and the short, erect rather than pendulous inflorescence.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Malesian Orchid J. 2: 24 J J Wood 2008 drawing fide; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011;

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