Pennilabium confusum (Ames) Garay 1972 TYPE Scan by Philbot.web and Flickr Orchid Photo Website

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Common Name or Meaning The Confused Pennilabium

Flower Size

Found in the Philippines at elevations around 700 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte with a short, branching stem enveloped by leaf bases carrying 2 ranked, crowded, oblong-lanceolate, unequally bilobed, leathery leaves that blooms in the later summer and fall on an axillary, shorter than the leaves, to 2" [5 cm] long, terete below, flattened above, few flowered inflorescence with a few tubular bracts.

Synonyms *Saccolabium confusum Ames 1913 publ. 1914

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Rudolph Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 19/20 1129 - 1264 Brieger 1988; Orchidiana Philippiana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984;

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