Flickingeria compressa Seidenf. 1980 SECTION Plicatiles

Side View of Flower Photos by Belle Orchidee © at Belle Orchidee Orchid Store

Part shade Fall

Common Name The Flattened Flickingeria

Flower Size .68" [1.7 cm]

Found in Thailand with a creeping rhizome with .4 to .8" [1 to 2 cm] between each 2 edged, very compressed, fusiform pseudobulb carrying a single, apical, erect, ellipitc, acute, narrowing below into the conduplicate base leaf that blooms in the fall on an adaxial, short, single flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Dendrobium compressibulbum Schuit. & Peter B.Adams 2011

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Dansk Botanisk Arkiv Flickingeria Bind 34 NR 1 Seidenfaden 1980 drawing fide; A field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2001 photo fide; A field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2005 photo fide; The Dendrobiums H P Wood 2006 photo hmm;

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