Pomatocalpa fuscum (Lindl.) J.J.Sm. 1912
Photo by © Leonardo L. Co and The Phyto Images Website
Photos by © Comber/Nordhausen and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name The Dusky Pomatocalpa
Flower Size
Found in Malaysia, Sabah Borneo and the Philippines in lowland to lower montane forests on trees in open areas [at elevations around 1500 meters, only cited * tentative] as a giant sized, hot to [cool*] growing epiphyte with a stout stem carrying spreading, oblong, fleshy leaves that blooms on an erect,branched, peduncle terete, 5.6 to 8” [14 to 20 cm] long, 4 short, tubular bracted, branching some [2 to 5] in the upper part, incurved, 8” [20 cm] long overall, rachis dense, successively 4 to 5, many flowered inflorescence with very short, triangular floral bracts.
Seidenfaden states that the flowers are yellow-green to greenish and have dull purple spotting throughout the outside and only in the basal half on the inside.
Synonyms *Cleisostoma fuscum Lindl. 1850; Pomatocalpa elongatum Carr 1932
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Opera Botanica #95 Seidenfaden 1988 drawing/photo good; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchids of penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Wood 1992 drawing fide; Orchids of Sarawak Beaman, Wood & Beaman etal 2001 photo fide; Wild Orchids of the Cameron Highlands REACH 2009 photo not = p kunstleri; Philippine Native Orchid Species Cootes 2011 photo fide; *The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 as P aff fusca
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