Flickingeria junctiloba Fessel & Lückel 1998SECTION Bilobulatae

Side View of FLower Photos by © Ronnie Boos and The RV Orchid Talk Website

Common Name or Meaning The Joined Flickingeria [refers to the conspicuous connection of the side lobes of the lip to the callus]

Flower Size .5" [125 mm]

Found in the Philippines at elevations around 800 to 1000 meters as a small, warm growing epiphyte with upright, 2 to 3 noded stems carrying a single apical, leathery, terminal, lanceolate leaf that blooms on a short, single flowered inflorescence arising from the back of the leaf.

Synonyms Dendrobium junctilobum (Fessel & Lückel) Schuit. & Peter B.Adams 2011

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Philippine Native Orchid Species Cootes 2009 photo fide; A Guide to the Dendrobium of the Philippines Cootes and Tiong 2015 photo fide;

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