Plocoglottis quadrifolia J.J. Sm. 1926

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Common Name The Four-Leafed Plocoglottis

Flower Size 1 1/2" [3.75 cm]

Found in Sumatra on limestone ridges at elevations around 80 to 850 meters as a medium sized, hot to warm growing terrestrial with erect pseudobulbs carrying 4 to 6, plicate, narrowly elliptic, acuminate, acute, gradually narrowing below into the petiolate base leaves that blooms in the spring and summer on a 24" to 30" [60 to 85 cm] long, erect, pubescent, laxly few to many flowered, racemose inflorescence with successively opening, fleshy flowers.

This species has a flip lip and when triggered pushes the insect into the column therefore increasing the probability that the pollina will be dislodged and attached to it's back.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitnand 1959 as Phaius longipes var? pg 329 and 331 fig 252 drawing fide; Botanisk Tidsserift 67: 76-127 Contributions to the Orchid Flora of Thailand IV Seidenfaden 1972; Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 15 881 - 944 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1984; The Orchids of Penninsular Mayasia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Wood 1992 drawing fide; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2002; AOS Bulletin Vol 72 No 8 2003 as Plectoglottis quadrifolia photo good; A field Guide to the Wild Orchids of Thailand Vaddhanaphuti 2005 photo good; Gard. Bull. Singapore 61:86 Kurzweil 2009; A to Z of South East Asian Orchid Species Vol 2 O'Byrne 2011 photo fide

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