Appendicula uncata Ridl. 1896
Photos by © Ong Poh Teck and The Biological Diversity Clearing House Mechanism Website
Common Name The Hooked Appendicula
Flower Size .32" [8 mm]
Found in Malaysia and Sarawak Borneo in lowland forests as a medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with elongate stems carrying many 2 ranked, 45 degrees to the stem, narrowing gradually to an almost pointed, slightly notched apex with a tooth in the sinus, all twisted to be in one plane, basally clasping, narrowly oblong leaves that blooms in the winter, spring and fall on a very short, terminal to lateral, to .6" [1.5 cm] long, successively to 10 flowered inflorescence.
This species is very close to A reflexa but this one has larger and much longer flowers
Synonyms Appendicula uncata subsp. sarawakensis J.J.Wood 1984; Podochilus uncatus (Ridl.) Ridl. 1907
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Wood 1992 drawing good; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchids of Borneo Vol 3 Wood 1997 as A uncata subsp sarawakensis drawing fide; Orchids of Sarawak Beaman Wood etal 2001 as A uncata subsp sarawakensis; Genera Orchidacearum Pridgeon, Chase, Cribb & Rassmusen 2005; Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 2 2008 as A uncata subsp sarawakensis; Wild Orchids of the Cameron Highlands REACH 2009 photo not??
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