Podochilus microphyllus Lindl. 1833
Photos by © Jaap Vermeulen, courtesy of Peter O'Byrne, Dr. E.F. de Vogel and André Schuiteman and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website
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Common Name or Meaning The Small Leafed Podochilus
Flower Size .15" [4mm]
Found in Cambodia, Myanmar, Nicobar Islands, Thailand, Vietnam, Borneo, Java, Malaysia and Sumatra in shady forests in lowlands at elevations of 60 to 1400 meters as a miniature to small sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with a pendant, thin, freely branching stems enveloped completely by leaf-bearing sheaths and carrying many, 2 ranked, oblong, apiculate green to reddish leaves that blooms in the winter through late spring on a terminal, sometimes lateral, thin, fractiflex, to .4" [1 cm] long, 2 to 6 flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acute floral bracts and small flowers
Synonyms Podochilus confusus J.J.Sm. 1927
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Otia Botanica Hamburgensia Rchb.f 1878; Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/1995; Flora of Malaya Vol 1 Holttum 1957 drawing fide; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959 drawing; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Orchids of Java Comber 1990; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Wood & Seidenfaden 1992 drawing/photo good; The Plants of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Orchids Beaman, Wood, Beaman & Beaman 1993; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Identification of the Orchids [Orchidaceae Juss.] Vietnam Averyanov 1994 drawing fide; Lindleyana Vol 15 No 4 2000; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001 as Podochilus microphyllum; A to Z of South East Asian Orchid Species Vol 1 O'Byrne 2001 photo fide; Orchids Of Sarawak Beaman & Wood etal 2001; Genera Orchidacearum Vol 4 Part 1 Pridgeon, Cribb, Chase and Rasmuessen 2005 photo fide; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011; Wild Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia Ong, O'Byrne, Yong & Saw 2011 photo fide Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia Ong, O'Byrne, Yong & Saw 2011 photo fide; Wild Orchids of Thailand Vol 2 Vadhanaphuti 2014 photo fide
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