Flickingeria rhodobalion (Schltr.) Brieger 1981 SECTION Plicatiles

Photo by © Vincent Wanua and The Anggrek Website

Common Name The Rose Red Spotted Flickingeria

Flower Size .53" [13 mm]

Found in Sulawesi on isolated trees at elevations around 600 meters as a medium sized, warm growing epiphyte that blooms in the summer on a short, terminal, single flowered inflorescence

Synonyms *Dendrobium rhodobalion Schltr. 1910; Ephemerantha rhodobalia (Schltr.) P.F.Hunt & Summerh. 1961

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Dansk Botanisk Arkiv Flickingeria Bind 34 NR 1 Seidenfaden 1980 as Dendrobium rhodobalion; *Schlechter Orchideen 1(11-12): 742 Brieger 1981 drawing good; Orchids of Papua New Guinea Millar 1999 photo fide; A to Z of South East Asian Orchid Species Vol 2 O'Byrne 2011 photo fide

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