Flickingeria scopa (Lindl.) Brieger 1981 SECTION Flickingeria
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Common Name or Meaning The Hairy Flickingeria [refers to the hairs at the apex of the lip]
Flower Size .8" [2 cm]
Found in Borneo, Sulawesi and the Philippines at elevations around 500 meters as a small to giant sized, hot growing epiphyte or occasional lithophyte with erect becoming semi-pendulous with age, 3 to 4 noded pseudobulbs with the new growth arising from the base of the uppermost internode, and carrying a single, apical, ovate, leathery leaf that blooms on short, single flowered inflorescence arising from bracts at the junction of the leaf and pseudobulb and carry short-lived flowers
Synonyms *Dendrobium scopa Lindl. 1842; Desmotrichum scopa (Lindl.) Kraenzl. 1910; Ephemerantha scopa (Lindl.) P.F.Hunt & Summerh 1961
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of The Philippines Cootes 2001
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