Appendicula longirostrata Ames & C.Schweinf. 1920
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Common Name The Long Beaked Appendicula
Flower Size .8" [2 cm]
Found only in Sabah, Brunei and Sarawak Borneo in lower montane forests at elevations of 1100 to 2700 meters as a medium sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte or occasional terrestrial on rocky hillside banks with erect, elongate stems carrying many distichous, elliptic, round apically, basally clasping leaves that blooms in the spring through fall on numerous solitary to several in a fascile, lateral, 3 to 6 flowered inflorescence each with a zigzag rachis and distichous, acuminate bracts
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Plants of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Orchids Wood Beaman & Beaman 1993 drawing/photo fide; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchids of Borneo Vol 3 wood 1997 drawing/photo fide; Orchids of Sarawak Beaman Wood etal 2001 photo good; Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 2 2008; Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 8 2011 drawing fide; 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 photo fide;
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