Jejewoodia longicalcarata [Ames & Schweinf.] J J Wood 2010

Photo by © John Varigos and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website

Full shade Cool

Common Name The Long Spur Jejewoodia

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Sabah Borneo in forests at elevations of 1100 to 1500 meters as a mini-miniature sized,cool growing epiphyte with a stem enveloped by imbricate leaf bases carrying linear, upper side curved, lower side straight, acute leaves that blooms on very short single flowered inflorescence

Synonyms *Microsaccus longicalcaratus Ames & C. Schweinf. 1920

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 23 1393 - 1456 Brieger 1990 as Microsaccus longicalcaratus; The Plants of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Orchids Beaman, Wood, Beaman & Beaman 1993 as Microsaccus longicalcaratus; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo J J Wood & P J Cribb 1994 as Microsaccus longicalcarata; Malisian Orchid Journal Vol 5 Wood 2010 drawing/photo fide; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 as Microsaccus longicalcaratus; Genera Orchidacearum Vol 6 Epidendroideae Part 3 Pridgeon, Cribb, Chase and Rasmussen 2014

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