Flickingeria laciniosa (Ridl.) A.D.Hawkes 1965 SECTION Plicates Photo by Segerback
Drawing by Seidenfaden
Specimen by © Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbarium
Common Name or Meaning The Flexible Dendrobium
Flower Size .5 to .6" [1.2 to 1.5 cm]
Found in penninsular Malaysia and Singapore as well as Sabah Borneo in hill forests as a small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with elliptic pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, erect, narrowly elliptic, minutely retuse apically leaf that blooms on a terminal, single flowered inflorescence arising at the leaf axil
Synonyms *Dendrobium laciniosum Ridl. 1896; Desmotrichum laciniosum (Ridl.) Kraenzl. 1910; Ephemerantha laciniosa (Ridl.) P.F.Hunt & Summerh. 1961
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; AOS Bulletin Vol 39 #8 1970 as Dendrobium lacinosum photo fide; Dansk Botanisk Arkiv Flickingeria Bind 34 NR 1 Seidenfaden 1980 drawing ok; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Wood 1992 drawing ok; Orchids of Malaya Segerback 1992 as Dendrbium laciniosum photos fide; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011
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