Flickingeria angustifolia (Blume) A.D.Hawkes 1965 SECTION Bilobulotae

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Common Name or Meaning The Narrow Leafed Flickingeria

Flower Size .15" [9mm]

Found in Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Java and Sumatra small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with branched, terete, erect stems carrying at 12 to 3" [2.5 to 7.5 cm] intervals, yellowish, not flattened, elliptic, tapering towards the apex pseduobulbs carrying a single, apical, narrowly lanceolate, thick, apically bilobed, gradually narrowing below into the base leaf that blooms in the late spring on a short, single flowered inflorescence arising abaxially from a depression in the apical portion of the pseudobulb close to he leaf base with a single bract

Synonyms Callista angustifolia (Blume) Kuntze 1891; Dendrobium angustifolium (Blume) Lindl. 1830; Dendrobium ardenii Ridl. 1908; Dendrobium kelsallii Ridl. 1896; Desmotrichum annamense A.D.Hawkes 1957; *Desmotrichum angustifolium Blume 1825; Desmotrichum ardenii (Ridl.) Ridl. 1924; Desmotrichum forcipatum Gagnep. 1950; Desmotrichum poilanei Gagnep. 1931; Ephemerantha angustifolia (Blume) P.F.Hunt & Summerh. 1961; Ephemerantha kelsallii (Ridl.) P.F.Hunt & Summerh. 1961; Ephemerantha poilanei (Gagnep.) P.F.Hunt & Summerh. 1961; Ephemerantha annamensis (A.D.Hawkes) P.F.Hunt & Summerh. 1961; Flickingeria annamensis (A.D.Hawkes) A.D.Hawkes 1965; Flickingeria kelsallii (Ridl.) A.D.Hawkes 1965; Flickingeria poilanei (Gagnep.) A.D.Hawkes 1965

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen Von Java J.J.Sm. 1905 as Dendrobium angustifolium; Flora of Malaya Vol 1 Orchids Holttum 1957; Orchids of Java Comber 1990; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia Wood & Seidenfaden 1992; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2002