!Ascidieria longifolia (Hook.f.) Seidenf. 1984
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Photos by © David Kuehn
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Common Name or Meaning The Long Leafed Ascidieria
Flower Size 1/10" [2.5mm]
Found in Thailand, Borneo, Malaysia and Sumatra in sand forests, lower montane forest and oak/laurel forests on mossy rocks at elevations of 900 to 1900 meters as a small to just medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with clustered, basally swollen, thinning towards the apex stems with elongate, free, acuminate sheaths near the base and carrying 2 to 3, linear, uneven apically leaves that blooms on a 1 to rarely 2, terminal, finely pubescent, many flowered inflorescence with the non-resupinate, not opening widely flowers arranged in whorls and has minute floral bracts
Synonyms Ascidieria verticillaris (Kraenzl.) Garay 1995; *Eria longifolia Hook.f. 1890; Eria verticillaris Kraenzl. 1910; Pinalia longifolia (Hook.f.) Kuntze 1891
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Plantarum Vol 21 Hooker 1891 as Eria longifolia drawing good; Flora of the Malayan Penninsula Ridley 1908 as E longifolia; Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Vol 6 Ames 1920 as Eria verticliaris' Flora of Malaya Vol 1 Holttum 1953 as Eria longifolia; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1960 as Eria longifolia; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 11-12 633 - 752 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1981 as Cymboglossum longifolium; Opera Botanica #62 Orchid Genera in Thailand X Seidenfaden 1982 as Eria longifolia drawing fide; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Wood & Seidenfaden 1992 drawing fide; Orchids of Malaya Segerback 1992 as Eria longifolia photo fide; The Plants of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Orchids Wood Beaman & Beaman 1993 drawing fide; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001 photo ok; Orchids of Sarawak Beaman Wood etal 2001; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 42 - 43 pg 2626 - 2762 Brieger 2001 drawing fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 42 - 43 pg 2626 - 2762 Brieger 2001 as A verticiliaris; Orchids of Borneo Wood Vol 4 2003 drawing/photo fide; Genera Orchidacearum Vol 4 part 1 Pridgeon, Cribb, Chase and Rasmussen 2005 photo fide; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 drawing fide; A to Z of South East Asian Orchid Species Vol 2 O'Byrne 2011 photo fide
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