Flickingeria kelsallii (Ridl.) A.D.Hawkes 1965 SECTION Bilobulotae
Photo by © Tun Jang and The Orchids of Malaysia Website
Common Name Kelsall's Flickingeria
Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]
Found in southern Malaysia in montane forests often in very windy exposed locations at elevations of 800 to 1300 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte that blooms in the later summer and fall on a short, successively single flowered inflorescence
Often cited as a synonym of F angustifolia but differs in the much larger central 3 calli of the lip as well as differences in the sepals and petals and this species turns red within 4 hours of it's opening.
Synonyms *Dendrobium kelsallii Ridl. 1896; Ephemerantha kelsallii (Ridl.) P.F.Hunt & Summerh. 1961
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1960 as Dendrobium kelsallii drawing ok; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1965 corrections as Ephemerantha kelsallii drawing fide; Dansk Botanisk Arkiv Flickingeria Bind 34 NR 1 Seidenfaden 1980 as Syn of F angustifolia; Orchids of Malaya Segerback 1992 as Dendrbium kelsallii photos fide; Living with Orchids In Sumatra Landau 1996 photo fide; A to Z of South East Asian Orchid Species Vol 2 O'Byrne 2011 photo fide
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