Apostasia latifolia Rolfe 1889 SECTION Adactylus

Flower Buds

Leaf Tip

Plant Photos by © David Kuehn

Full shade Warm LATECool Spring

Common Name The Wide Leaf Apostasia

Flower Size

Found in penninsular Malaysia in montane forests at elevations around 2000 meters as a medium sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with elliptical, plicate, apically thread-like, narrowing below into the elongate, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the spring on a terminal, erect, bent downwards, 6.8" [17 cm] long, branched, each branch 2.8" [7 cm] long, several flowered inflorescence.

Synonyms Adactylus latifolius (Rolfe) Rolfe 1896

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Of Malaysia Vol 1 Holttum 1953; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Wood 1992; Wild Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia Ong, O'Byrne, Yong & Saw 2011 photo ok

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