!Poaephyllum pauciflorum (Hook.f.) Ridl. 1907
1st Photo by © Peter O'Byrne 2nd by JB Comber and The Swiss Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
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Common Name The Few Flowered Poaephyllum
Flower Size .16" [4mm]
Found in Thailand, penninsular Malaysia, Java, Sumatra, Sabah Borneo and the Philippines in lowlands and hill riverine forests at elevations around 400 to 600 meters as a medium sized sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with hard, non-branched stems carrying in youth 2 ranked, linear, gradually narrowing apically to an obtuse bilobed apex leaves that blooms in the late summer and early fall on numerous, lateral, very short to .4" [1 cm] long, successively, 2 to 4 flowered inflorescence with triangular floral bracts
Synonyms Agrostophyllum pauciflorum Hook.f. 1890; Eria minutiflora Ridl. 1896; Lectandra parviflora J.J.Sm. 1907; Lectandra pauciflora (Hook.f.) Schltr. 1912; Poaephyllum parviflorum (J.J.Sm.) Rolfe 1912
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Plantarum Vol 21 Hooker 1892 as Agrostophyllum pauciflorum drawing ok; Flora of Malaya Vol 1 Holttum 1957 drawing fide; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitnand 1960; Orchids of Java Cober 1990 photo fide; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Wood 1992 drawing ok; The Plants of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Orchids Beaman, Wood, Beaman & Beaman 1993; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Cribb & Wood 1994; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001 photo fide; Orchids of Sarawak Beaman, Wood & Beaman etal 2001; Genera Orchidacearum Vol 4 Part 1 Pridgeon, Cribb, Chase and Rasmuessen 2005 drawing fide The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 drawing/photo fide; Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia Ong, O'Byrne, Yong & Saw 2011 photo fide
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