Flickingeria shihfuana T.P.Lin & Kuo Huang 2005

SECTION Flickingeria Drawing by Lin Tsan-Piao and Kuo Huang Ling-Lung and © Flora Of China Website

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Common Name or Meaning The Shi Fu Flickingeria -

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in Taiwan in montane forests at elevations around 1200 meters as a small sized, cool growing epiphyte with suberect to pendulous, slender, tufted, frequently branching, terete internodes, clavate to cylindrical stems with the terminal internodes enlarged and swollen into a greenish, lustrous, flattened, elongate fusiform pseudobulb and carrying articulate, oblong to ovate-oblong, leathery, rigid, acute leaves that blooms in the late spring through early fall on a terminal, short, successively 1 to 2, several flowered inflorescence subtended by bracts and a scarious acute floral bract.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

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