Pennilabium angraecoides (Schltr.) J.J.Sm. 1914

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Common Name The Angraecum-Like Pennilabium [refers to its similarity to P angraecum]

Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]

Found in Borneo in riverine and lower montane forests at elevations of 400 to 1400 meters as a mini-miniature sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with 5 to 6, narrowly linear-elliptic, unequally and acutely bilobed apically, gradually narrowing below into the clasping base leaves that blooms in the later spring on an axillary, 2" [5 cm] long, successively single flowered inflorescence

Synonyms *Saccolabium angraecoides Schltr. 1906

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Plants of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Orchids Beaman, Wood, Beaman & Beaman 1993; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchids of Borneo Vol 4 J.J.Wood 2003;

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