Flickingeria interjecta (Ames) A.D.Hawkes 1965 SECTION Bilobulatae

Side View of Flower Photos by © Ronnie Boos and The RV Orchid Talk Website

Part SunWarm Summer Fall

Common Name or Meaning The Spaced Out Flickingeria

Flower Size .32" [8 mm]

Found in the Philippines at elevations around 750 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte with upright stems carrying a single apical, leathery, terminal, elliptic to obtuse leaf that blooms in the summer and fall on a short, single flowered inflorescence arising from behind the leaf.

Synonyms *Dendrobium interjectum Ames 1915; Desmotrichum interjectum (Ames) A.D.Hawkes 1957; Ephemerantha interjecta (Ames) P.F.Hunt & Summerh. 1961

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Dansk Botanisk Arkiv Flickingeria Bind 34 NR 1 Seidenfaden 1980; The Complete Writings on Philippine Orchids Vol 1 Quisumbing 1981 as Dendrobium interjectum; Philippine Native Orchid Species Cootes 2009 photo fide; A Guide to the Dendrobium of the Philippines Cootes and Tiong 2015 photo fide;

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