Appendicula imbricata J.J.Sm. 1903

Plant and Flowers Photos by © JB Comber and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Full shade Warm Fall

Common Name or Meaning The Imbricate Appendicula

Flower Size .14" [3.5 mm]

Found in southeastern Java as a large sized, warm growing epiphyte or lithophyte with both pendulous and climbing, rooting at several locations along the stem, much branched stem carrying, many, obtusely and unevenly bilobed apically with a small central cusp, all twisted as to lie in one plane, at a 90 degree angle t othe stem leaves that blooms in the fall on several short, single flowered inflorescence.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Java Comber 1990 photos good;

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