Ascochilus emarginatus (Blume) Schuit. 2001
Photo by © Dian Rahardjo and Orchid Photo Page
Photos by Peter O'Byrne, courtesy of André Schuiteman, Dr. E.F. de Vogel, and Jaap Vermeulen and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website
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Common Name or Meaning The Notched Ascochilus
Flower Size .2 to .3" [5 to 8 mm]
Found in Sarawak, Borneo, Java and Sumatra in lowlands on steep limestone slopes at elevations of 10 to 1400 meters on thin tree trunks as a mini-miniature sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with a short, sometimes basally branching, erect stem carrying several, light green, unequally bilobed leaves that blooms in the late spring and early winter on a hairy peduncel, 4" [10 cm] long, successively 1 to 3, to 15 flowered inflorescence.
Synonyms Aerides emarginata (Blume) Lindl. 1833; *Dendrocolla emarginata Blume 1825; Grosourdya emarginata (Blume) Rchb.f. 1868; Pteroceras emarginatum (Blume) Holttum 1960; Pteroceras mentakabensis [Carr] Bakk f. 1963; Sarcochilus emarginatus (Blume) Rchb.f.1863; Sarcochilus mentakabensis Carr. 1929; Thrixspermum emarginatum (Blume) Kuntze 1891
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1857 as Dendrocolla emarginata; Xenia Orchidaceae vol 2 Rchb.f 1865 as Grossoudya emarginata; Die Orchideen Von Java J.J.Sm. 1905 as Sarcochilus emarginatus; Die Orchideen Von Java Figuren Atlas J.J.Smith 1908 as Sarcochilus emarginatus drawing fide; Gard. Bull. Singapore 11:288 Holttum 1947 as Sarcochilus mentakabensis; Orchids of Java Comber 1990 photo ok; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994 as Grosoudya emarginata; Orchids of Sarawak Beaman/Wood 2001 photo fide; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003; Philippine Native Orchid Species Cooted 2011 photo fide; Genera Orcidacearum Vol 6 Epidendrodeae Part 3 Pridgeon, Cribb, Chase and Rasmussen 2014 drawing fide;
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