Malleola dentifera J.J. Sm. 1927 Photo by © Lourens Grobler

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Common Name or Meaning The Toothed Malleola

Flower Size 3/8" [.7 cm]

Found in Thailand, Borneo, Vietnam, penninsular Malaysia and Sumatra at lower elevations as a medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with elongate pendulous stems with the apices arising enveloped by basal leaf bearing sheaths carrying, several, narrowly lanceolate, oblique apically, slightly undulate leaves that blooms in the summer on an axillary, lateral to pendulous, dense and many flowered, 3.6" [9.1 cm] long, ribbed inflorescence that blooms in the summer with an axillary, short, several [10] flowered inflorescence.

Synonyms Ascochilus vietnamensis Guillaumin 1964; Malleola vietnamensis (Guillaumin) Guillaumin 1964

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2002