Appendicula magnibracteata Ames & C.Schweinf. 1920

HOLOTYPE Collection Sheet by Clemens

Common Name The Large Bracted Appendicula

Flower Size

Found in Sabah and Sarawak Borneo in hill and lower montane forests at elevations of 900 to 1400 meters as a warm to cool growing pendulous epiphyte with a stout, more or less arcuate, pendulous stem carrying sdistichous, narrowly lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, minutely uneqally bilobed, mucronate apex, coriaceous, many nered, prominent midlobe beneath, basally clasping leaves that blooms in the fall on many lateral, 1 to 1.36" [2.5 to 3.4 cm] long, peduncle rpovided with several, closely imbricating, scarious sheaths, rachis sinuous, fractiflex, few flowered inflorescence with consicuous, distichous, cymbiform, lanceolate-attenuate, much longer than the flowered floral bracts.

The flowers are similar to A longirostrata but slightly larger but the vegetative parts are different.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orchidaceae 6: 151 Ames 1920; The Plants of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Orchids Wood Beaman & Beaman 1993; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchids of Sarawak Beaman, Wood, Beaman etal 2001; Malesian Orchid J. 2 J J Wood 2008; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 drawing fide;

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