Microsaccus ampullaceus J.J.Sm. 1922
Photos by © James Comber and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name The Vein Like Microsaccus
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Malaysia, Sumatra and Borneo in podsol forests at elevtions of 1200 to 1300 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with a pendulous, branching stem carrying obliquely oblong-triangular, acuminate, acute, shortly split above the base leaves that blooms in the fall on an axillary, very short, 2 flowered inflorescence
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Malaya Vol 1 Holttum 1957 drawing good; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 23 1393 - 1456 Brieger 1990; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Wood 1992 drawing ok; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001 photo fide; Orchids of Sarawak Wood & Beaman 2001 as M aff ampullaceus; Wild Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia Ong, O'Byrne, Yong & Saw 2011 photo fide; Genera Orchidacearum Vol 6 Epidendroideae paret 3 Pridgeon, Cribb, Chase and Rasmussen 2014 drawing fide;
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