! Pennilabium angraecum (Ridl.) J.J.Sm. 1914 Photo by © J B Comber and The Swiss Orchid Foundation At the Jany Renz Herbaria Websiate

Drawing Drawing by © J J Smith

Common Name The Angraecum-Like Pennilabium

Flower Size

Found in Malaysia and Java in moist forests at elevations of 300 to 1000 meters as a miniature sized, hot to warm growing, trunk epiphyte with a short stem carrying fleshy, lanceolate, finely bilobed apically leaves that blooms in the fall on a pendulous, as long as the leaves, 3" [7.5 cm] long, flattened rachis, successively one flowered inflorescence.

Synonyms *Saccolabium angraecum Ridl. 1898; Saccolabium aurantiacum J.J.Sm. 1910

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Die Orchideen Von Java J.J.Sm. 1905; Die Orchideen Von Java Figuren Atlas J.J.Smith 1908 drawing fide; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Die Orchideen lieferung 19/20 Schlechter/Brieger 1986 drawing fide; Orchids of Java Comber 1990 photo fide; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Wood 1992 drawing/photo fide;

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