Podochilus schistantherus Schltr. 1911
Plant Photos by © Peter O'Byrne and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
TYPE Drawing Drawing by © Schlechter and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name or Meaning The Split Flower Podochilus [refers to the column]
Flower Size .08" [2 mm]
Found in Sulawesi on moss free tree trunks at elevations around 600 to 1100 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with a slender, creepin,freely branching stem carrying many, short, basally twisted, distichous, close set leaves that blooms in the spring and fall on a terminal, short, successivley single, to 5 flowered inflorescence
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1912; A to Z of South East Asian Orchids Vol 2 O'Byrne 2011 photo
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