Appendicula clemensiae (Ames) Ames 1913 publ. 1914 Photo by © Ravan Schneider and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website

Inflorescence Photo by Dale Borders

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Common Name or Meaning Clemens' Appendicula [American Female Orchid Collector 1900's]

Flower Size .16" [4 mm]

Found in the Philippines at elevations 500 to 1700 meters as a medium to large sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with upright, semipendulous, branching towards the apex stems carrying 2 ranked, linear, unequally bilobed apically leaves that blooms in the winter and spring, late summer and early fall on a terminal to axillary, to 1.2" [3 cm] long, to 20, successively 1 to 3 at a time flowered inflorescence

Synonyms *Podochilus clemensiae Ames 1910

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Complete Writings on Philippine Orchids Vol 1 Quisumbing 1981; Orchidiana Philippiana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984; Philippine Native Orchid Species Cootes 2011 photo fide;

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