Microsaccus sumatranus J.J.Sm. 1917 Photo by © Peter O'Byrne and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herrbaria Website

Full shade Warm Spring

Common Name The Sumatran Microsaccus

Flower Size .24" [6 mm]

Found in Malaysia and Sumatra in montane forests as a mini-miniature sized, warm, pendulous growing epiphyte with short, basally branching stems carrying 2 rowed, fleshy, triangular, grooved on the upper side, sometimes reddish brown leaves that blooms in the spring on an axillary, 2 flowered, short inflorescence

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Wood 1992 drawing good; Orchids of Malaya Segerback 1992 photo fide; Orchids of Sumatra J B Comber 2001; A to Z of South East Asian Orchid Species Vol 2 O'Byrne 2011 photo fide; Genera Orchidacearum Vol 6 Epidendroideae paret 3 Pridgeon, Cribb, Chase and Rasmussen 2014 drawing fide;

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