Appendicula verruculifera J.J.Sm. 1926 SECTION Appendiculata

TYPE Drawing by J J Smith

Common Name The Wart Carrying Appendicula

Flower Size .24" [6 mm] long

Found in Sumatra in montane forsts at elevations around 1200 meters as a medium sized, cool growing epiphyte with close set stems carrying oblong, very shortly and obtusely bilobed with a short spike between the lobes leaves that blooms on sessile, not branched, from the nodes of the stem, .6 to .72" [1.5 to 1.8 cm] long, to 11 flowered inflorescence with somewhat clasping the rachis, acuminate floral bracts and carrying white flowers.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Bull. Jard. Bot. Buitenzorg, sér. 3, 8: 56 J J Smith 1926 drawing fide; REINWARDTIA Vol 1 Donk & Steenis 1950 drawing fide; Orchids of Sumatra J B Comber 2001

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