Flickingeria hesperis Seidenf. 1982 SECTION Bilobulata

Plant and Flowers

Photos by © Pankaj Kumar and The Flowers of India Website

Part shade Cool LATESpring

Common Name The Westerly Flickingeria

Flower Size small

Found in the western Himalayas [Uttaranchal] at elevations around 1500 to 2000 meters as a medium sized, cool growing epiphyte with many stems carrying minutely bilobulate, mid vein terminating in a short, flat mucro in sinus leaves that blooms in the late spring on a single flowered inflorescence with small flowers

CAUTION I have no way to verify this determination so please use with caution.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; AOS Bulletin Vol 54 No 3 1985; Orchids of Kumaun Himalayas Pangtey, Samant and Rawat 1991; LANKESTERIANA 15(1): 7—50. Jeewan Singh Jalal & J. Jayanthi 2015 as Dendrobium hesperis

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