Flickingeria pallens (Kraenzl.) A.D.Hawkes 1965 SECTION Plicatiles

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Common Name The Pale Flickingeria

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

Found in Thailand and penninsular Malaysia at elevations around 400 to 1000 meters as a medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with many close set, rather slender, 1 to 2 noded, elliptic in cross-section stems and carrying a single apical, lanceolate, retuse apically, without arista and blooms on an adaxial, single flowered inflorescence

CAUTION I am not convinced of the veracity of this determination.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Malaya Vol 1 Holttum 1957; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1965 corrections as Ephemerantha pallens;

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