Flickingeria praetermissa W.Suarez & Cootes 2007 SECTION Bilobulatae

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

Common Name or Meaning The Neglected Flickingeria

Flower Size .32" [8 mm]

Found only in the Philippines at elevations around 750 meters as a miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte with upright, slightly flattened stems carrying a single apical, leathery, terminal, ovate-acute leaf that blooms on a short, single flowered inflorescence arising the front of the leaf.

Synonyms Dendrobium omissum Schuit. & Peter B.Adams 2011

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Dansk Botanisk Arkiv Flickingeria Bind 34 NR 1 Seidenfaden 1980; 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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