Appendicula merrillii Ames 1913 publ. 1914

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Deep Shade Warm Cool Fall

Common Name Merrill's Appendicula [American Botanist in the Philippines 1900's]

Flower Size

Found in Borneo and the Philippines at elevations of 700 to 1600 meters as a mini-miniature to small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with 2 ranked, oblong-lanceolate, thin, deciduous leaves that blooms in the fall on an axillary, simple to branched, densely many flowered inflorescence with leaf-like, lanceolate bracts.

CAUTION I have no way of verifying this determination so please use with caution.

Synonyms Chilopogon merrillii (Ames) Ames 1915

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidiana Philippiana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994;

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