Appendicula bilobulata J.J.Wood 1997

SECTION Pododesme

Drawing by Susanna Stuart-Smith

LATE EARLY

Common Name The 2 Lobed Appendicula [refers to the bilobed lip epiichile

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Sarawak Borneo in lower montane forests at elevations around 1740 to 1800 meters as a miniature to small sized, cool growing, trailing, mat forming epiphyte with a very slender, branching distally stems carrying narrowly oblong-elliptic, minutely obliquely retuse, mucronate, thin-textured, sheathed leaves that blooms in the late summer and early fall on a lateral or terminal, peduncle .2" [5 mm] long, provided with 2 to 3 tubular, acute to acuminate bracts, rachis .2 to .48" [ .5 to 1.2 cm] long, fractiflex, successivelysingle, few flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, narrowly acuminate, shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying white flowers with the apex of the lip pale purple.

Similar to A fractiflexa and A undulata but is distinguished by the distinctive, bilobed lip. <

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Borneo Vol 4 J J Wood 2003 drawing fide; Orchids of Sarawak Beaman, Wood, Beaman etal 2001;

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