Appendicula calcarata Ridl. 1896 SECTION Chromatodesme
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Common Name The Spurred Appendicula
Flower Size .8" [2 cm]
Found in Borneo and Sumatra in hill forests at elevations of 800 to 900 meters as a medium sized, warm growing, sympodial, semi-pendulous epiphyte with a freely branching stem carrying oblong, sessile, unequal, obtuse apically, shortly apiculate leaves that blooms on a terminal, 1 to 1.4" [2.5 to 3.5 cm] long, to 8 flowered inflorescence
Synonyms Podochilus calcaratus (Ridl.) Schltr. 1900
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Plants of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Orchids Wood Beaman & Beaman 1993; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994 Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001; Orchids of Sarawak Beaman Wood etal 2001; Orchids of Borneo Vol 4 Wood 2003 drawing/photo good; Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 2 2008; Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 8 2011 drawing good; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 1 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 drawing/photo fide; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 drawing fide;
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