Appendicula australiensis (F.M.Bailey) Schltr. 1912
Photos by © Mark Clements
Common Name The Australian Appendicula - In Australia The Native Srteam Orchid
Flower Size .15" [3.5mm]
Found in New Guinea and Queensland Australia at elevations of sea level to 700 meters in humid lowland forests often on rainforest trees overhanging streams as a small to medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with an elongate, thin stem enveloped completely by imbricating leaf-bearing sheaths, each carrying basally twisted, thin, dark green, glossy, unequally bilobed apically leaves that blooms in the fall on a short inflorescence arising on the upper portion of the stem with 2 to 6 flowers held in a cluster
There is a lot of confusion here as this species is very close to and may be Appendicula reflexa, more research needs to be done.
Synonyms *Eria australiensis F.M.Bailey1886; Podochilus australiensis (F.M.Bailey) Schltr. 1907
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1914/85; AOS Bulletin Vol 35 No 4 1966; The Orchids of Papua New Guinea An Introduction Millar 1978 as Podochilus australiensis photo ok; Orchids of Papua New Guinea Millar 1999 as Podochilus australensis photo ok?; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 41 pg 2565 - 2625 Brieger 2001; Genera Orchidacearum Pridgeon, Chase, Cribb & Rassmusen 2005; Native Orchids of Australia Jones 2006 photo good
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