Appendicula elmeri (Ames) Ames 1913 publ. 1914
Inflorescence in time Photos by © P. B. Pelser and J. F. Barcelona and The Phyto Images Website
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Common Name or Meaning Elmer's Appendicula [American Botanist and Orchid Collector in the Philippines 1900's]
Flower Size .12" [3mm]
Found in the Philippines along streams at elevations of 400 to 1300 meters as a large sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with rigid, flattened stems carrying 2 ranked, oblong-elliptic, leathery, shortly pointed apically leaves that blooms in the mid spring through early summer on a racemose, axillary, mostly towards the apex, long-peduncled, successively few flowered inflorescence
Synonyms *Podochilus elmeri Ames 1912
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidiana Philippiniana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984;
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