Appendicula effusa (Schltr.) Schltr. 1912 SECTION Pododesme TYPE Drawing by © Schlechter and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name The Dispersed Appendicula

Flower Size .12" [3 mm] wide

Found in western Sumatra at elevations of 1200 to 1700 meters as a small to medium sized, cool growing epiphyte with close set, not branching, flattened stems carrying broadly oblong, slightly unequal apices, hard, green suffused with purple leaves that blooms on a terminal or lateral, peduncle thin, 1 to 4.4" [ 2.5 to 11 cm] long, rachis very short, 6 to 15 flowered inflorescence with reflexed, ovate-lanceolate, concave floral bracts.

J J Smith noted that this species is closest to A infundibuliformis which is a larger plant in all respects. Schlechter suggested that it was close to A elegans but J J Smith hadf amuch better description of the species.

Synonyms *Podochilus effusus Schltr. 1911

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Sumatra J B Comber 2001;

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