Flickingeria appendiculata (Blume) A.D.Hawkes 1965 SECTION Bilobulata

Drawing by © Seidenfaden and The Swiss Orchid Foundaqtion at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name The Appendaged Flickingeria

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

Found in Thailand, Malaysia, Sumatra and Java as a medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with an elongate rhizome giving rise to erect stems with the apical internode formed into an elliptic pseudobulb carrying a single, rather broad, leathery, oval to oblong, apically rounded and shortly bidentate leaves that blooms on an adaxial or abaxial, arising through the fascicles with a short single flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Callista appendiculata (Blume) Kuntze 1891; Dendrobium appendiculatum (Blume) Lindl. 1830; Dendrobium bifidum Ridl. 1899; Dendrobium cystopoides J.J.Sm. 1931; Dendrobium forcipatum J.J.Sm. 1920; *Desmotrichum appendiculatum Blume 1825; Ephemerantha appendiculata (Blume) P.F.Hunt & Summerh.1961; Ephemerantha bifida (Ridl.) P.F.Hunt & Summerh. 1961; Ephemerantha smithii P.F.Hunt & Summerh. 1961; Flickingeria bifida (Ridl.) A.D.Hawkes 1965

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Dansk Botanisk Arkiv Flickingeria Bind 34 NR 1 Seidenfaden 1980 drawing fide; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1960 as Dendrobium bifidum; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1965 corrections as Ephemerantha bifidum drawing hmm; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Wood 1992 drawing fide; Orchid Species Culture Dendrobium Bakers 1996; Orchids of Sumatra J B Comber 2001; Orchids of Sarawak Beaman, Wood & Beaman etal 2001 as F aff appendiculata; Dendrobiums H P Wood 2006 photo ok

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