Appendicula malindangensis (Ames) Schltr. 1912 SECTION Appendicula

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Full shade Warm Cool Fall

Common Name or Meaning The Mount Malindang Appendicula [a Mountain on Mindano of the Philippine archipelago]

Flower Size .28" [7 mm]

Found in the Philippines at elevations up to 1600 meters as a large sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with upright to semi-pendulous stems carrying oblong to lanceolate, leathery, 2 ranked leaves that blooms in the fall on an pendulous, 1.2" [3 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence

Synonyms *Podochilus malindangensis Ames 1911

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidiana Philippiana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984; Philippine Native Orchid Species Cootes 2011 photo fide; OrchidDigest Vol 88 #4 2019 photo fide;

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