Agrostophyllum majus Hook.f. 1890 SECTION Agrostophyllum
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Common Name or Meaning The
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Thailand, Borneo, Java, Malaysia, Sumatra, New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu in lowland, hill and montane forest at elevations of 200 to 1500 meters as a large to giant sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with a flattened stem that widens towards the apes and carrying many, linear, smaller from the base larger towards the apex, basally clasping, obtuse leaves that blooms on a terminal, many, short, crowded branched inflorescence arising on a mature growth and forming a head each carrying several small flowers
Synonyms Agrostophyllum agusanense Ormerod 2014; Agrostophyllum denbergeri J.J.Sm. 1921; Agrostophyllum indifferens J.J.Sm. 1927;
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Plantarum Vol 21 Hooker 1892 drawing ok; Flora of Malaya Vol 1 Holttum 1957 drawing good; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1960 drawing wrong more like A brevipes; The Orchids of Papua New Guinea An Introduction Millar 1978 photo ok; Orchids of Vanuatu Lewis & Cribb 1989; The Orchids of the Solomon Islands and Bougainville Lewis & Cribb 1991; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Woods & Seidenfaden 1992 drawing ok; The Plants of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Orchids Wood Beaman & Beaman 1993; The Plants of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Orchids Wood Beaman & Beaman 1993 as A saccatum; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994 as A indifferens; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994 as A saccatum; Living with Orchids in Sumatra Landau 1996 photo fide; A Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001; Orchids of Sarawak Beeman & Wood 2001 photo ok; Orchids of Sarawak Beeman & Wood 2001 as A saccatum; Wild Orchids of the Cameron Highlands REACH 2009 photo good; 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; Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 20 2017 drawing fide;
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