Appendicula hexandra (J.König) J.J.Sm. 1932 SECTION Appendicula
Photo by © Karel & Alex Petrzelka and the Vietnam Orchid Website
Common Name The Six Appendicula
Flower Size
Found in Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam and Sumatra on densely shady, mossy, vertical cliffs or mossy trees at elevations of 450 to 1400 meters as a small sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte or lithophyte with unbranched climbing stems enveloped completely by leaf sheaths carrying numerous, linear-lanceolate, shortly obtuse and nearly equally bidentate, mucronate, all in the same plane, distichous leaves that blooms on a very short to .8" [2 cm] long, 1 to 3 flowered inflorescence with small flowers
Synonyms Appendicula inornata Guillaumin 1961; Appendicula koenigii Hook.f. 1890; *Epidendrum hexandrum J.König 1791; Podochilus hexandrus (J.König) Schltr. 1900
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Plantarum Vol 22 Hooker 1893 as A koenigii drawing good; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1960 as A koenigii drawing fide; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1965 corrections as A koenigii; Tidsskrift bd 68 hft 1 Contributions to the Orchid Flora of Thailand V Seidedenfaden 1973; Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 6 321 - 384 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1975 photo fide; Contribution to a Revision of the Orchid Flora of Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam Seidenfaden 1975; Identification of the Orchids [Orchidaceae Juss.] Vietnam Averyanov 1994; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001; A field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2001 photo ok; A field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2005 photo ok; Turczaninowia 16(4):26-46 NEW AND RARE ORCHIDS (ORCHIDACEAE) IN THE FLORA OF CAMBODIA AND LAOS Averyanov 2013; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007; Turczaninowia 19 (3): 5–58 L. V. Averyanov, Khang Sinh Nguyen etal 2016 ;
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