Tropidia pedunculata Bl. 1858
Drawing by © Sarat Misra
Drawing by © Seidenfaden
TYPE Drawings by © Blume in Flora Javae
Common Name The Pedunculate Tropidia [refers to the inflorescence]
Flower Size .25" [6mm]
Found in the Bangladesh, western Himalayas, Assam, eastern Himalayas, India, Andaman Islands, Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, Laos, Java, Borneo, Lesser Sunda Islands, Sumatra, Moluccas, New Guinea and the Philippines in bamboo thickets of lowland and hill forests at elevations around 100 to 1400 meters as a large to giant sized, hot to cool growing terrestrial with an erect stem carrying 7, elliptic, plicate, 5 to 9 veined, long acuminate apically, narrowed below into the short, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the summer on a terminal to less often laterally, often 2 to 3 at a time, 1/2 to 1.6" [1.2 to 3.8 cm] long, densely subglobose inflorescence with non-resupinate flowers with a down-turned orange lip and floral bracts that are twice as long as the ovary.
Synonyms Tropidia maingayi Hkr.f 1890; Schoenomorphus capitatus Thorel Ex gagnep 1933
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1959; The Orchids of Thailand Seidefaden & Smitnand 1965 corrections; Dansk Botanisk Arkiv Bind 32 nr 2 Orchids of Thailand VI Neottiideae Seidenfaden 1978 drawing fide The Orchids of Penninsular Mayasia and Singapore Seidenfaden & wood 1992; The Plants of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Orchids Beaman, Wood, Beaman & Beaman 1993; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchids of Sarawak Beaman, Wood & Beaman etal 2001; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002; Lindleyana Vol 17 No 1 2002; The Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007 drawing/photo fide; Flora Malesia Orchids of New Guinea Vol V 2008; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011; Orchids of Odisha Misra 2014 drawing/photo fide; LANKESTERIANA 15(1): 7—50. Jeewan Singh Jalal & J. Jayanthi 2015
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