Ascochilus mindanaensis (Ames) Christenson 1985
Plant and Flowers Photos by © Leicneagra and The Wild Orchids in Sumatra Website
Common Name The Mindano Island Ascochilus [An Island in the Philippine Archipelago]
Flower Size
Found in Java, Sumatra, Borneo? and the Philippines at elevations around 1550 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with a short, leafy stem enveloped by persistent leaf sheath bases and carrying 2 ranked, oblong, falcate, tapering at both ends, unequally bilobed apically leaves that blooms in the spring and fall on an axillary, pubescent, slender, 2.2" [5.5 cm] long, successively loosely few flowered,
CAUTION I have no way of verifying this determination so please use with caution.
Synonyms Aerides calceolaris Teijsm. & Binn. 1864; Ascochilus calceolaris Garay 1972; Grosourdya mindanaensis (Ames) Kocyan & Schuit. 2014; Sarcochilus mindanaensis (Ames) Ames 1915; *Thrixspermum mindanaense Ames 1913 publ. 1914
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Complete Writings on Philippine Orchids Vol 1 Quisumbing 1981 as Sarcochilus mindanaensis; Orchidiana Philippiana Valmayor 1984 as A calceolaris; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 19/20 1129 - 1264 Brieger 1988 drawing ok; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994 see excluded taxa; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001 Photo not; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 42 - 43 pg 2626 - 2762 Brieger 2001;
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