Flickingeria fimbriata (Blume) A.D. Hawkes 1961 SECTION Plicates Photo by © Eric Hunt and His Orchid Website

Flower and PseudobulbPhoto courtesy of Patricia Harding

Common Name The Fringed Flickingeria

Flower Size 1 to 2" [2.5 cm to 5 cm]

Found in the Chinese Himalayas, Assam, eastern Himalayas, India, Nepal, Andaman Islands, Nicobar Islands, Penninsular Malaysia, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, China, Borneo, Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, Lesser Sunda Islands and the Philippines on open rocks and bluffs along streams and rivers in lowland evergreen and medium elevation semi-deciduous forests at elevations of 200 to 1300 meters as a large sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with long, stout branching rhizome with compressed, freely branching stems giving rise to yellow, compressed, pseudobulbs carrying oblong-elliptic, acute leaves that blooms in the spring, summer and fall on a single flowered inflorescence with sweetly scented, short-lived flowers.

Synonyms Callista binnendykii (Rchb.f.) Kuntze 1891; Callista flabella [Rchb.f]Kuntze 1891; Callista kunstleri (Hook.f.) Kuntze 1891; Callista macraei (Lindl.) Kuntze. 1891; Dendrobium binnendijkii Rchb.f. 1865; Dendrobium fimbriatum [Bl.] Lindl. 1830; Dendrobium flabellum Rchb.f 1857; Dendrobium insulare Steudel 1840; Dendrobium kunstleri Hook.f. 1890; Dendrobium macraei Lindl. 1830; Dendrobium mentosum Schltr. 1911; Dendrobium plicatile Lindl. 1840; Dendrobium rabanii Lindl. 1859; Desmotrichum binnendijkii (Rchb.f.) Kraenzl. 1910; *Desmotrichum fimbriatum Blume 1825; Desmotrichum kunstleri (Hook.f.) Kraenzl. 1910; Ephemerantha fimbriata (Blume) P.F. Hunt & Summerh. 1961; Ephemerantha kunstleri (Hook.f.) P.F.Hunt & Summerh. 1961; Ephemerantha macraei (Lindl.) P.F.Hunt & Summerh. 1961; Flickingeria binnendijkii (Rchb.f.) A.D.Hawkes 1965; Flickingeria kunstleri (Hook.f.) A.D.Hawkes 1965; Flickingeria rabanii (Lindl.) Seidenf. 1980

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/1995 as D macraei; Die Orchideen Von Java J.J.Sm. 1905 as Dendrobium flabellum; Die Orchideen Von Java J.J.Sm. 1905 as Dendrobium macraei; Orchidiana Philipiniana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984; Orchids of Java Comber 1990; The Orchids of Pennisular Malaysia and Singapore Wood & Seidenfaden 1992; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001; Orchid Flora of Kamrup District Assam Iswar Chandra Barua 2001 as F macraei; A Field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2001; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003; The Dendrobiums H. P. Wood 2006