Appendicula maquilingensis Ames 1913

Photo by © Pieter .B. Pelser and The PhytoImages Website. and Flora Malesiana Vol III

Deep Shade Hot Cool Spring Fall

Common Name The Mount Maquiling Appendicula [A mountain in the Philippines ]

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in the Philippines in mossy forests at elevations of 40 to 2000 meters as a small sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte or lithophyte with 2 ranked, oblong-lanceolate, acute leaves that blooms in the spring and fall on an axillary or terminal, racemose, to 2" [to 5 cm] long, compact, many flowered inflorescence with oblong-lanceolate bracts.

CAUTION I have no way of verifying this determination so please use with caution.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Complete Writings on Philippine Orchids Vol 1 Quisumbing 1981; Orchidiana Philippiana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984;

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