Poaephyllum podochiloides (Schltr.) Ridl. 1916
Photo courtesy of André Schuiteman, Dr. E.F. de Vogel and Jaap Vermeulen and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website
Common Name or Meaning The Podochilus-Like Poaephyllum
Flower Size .35" [.6cm]
Found in Borneo and New Guinea in hill and lower montane forests and on limestone at elevations around 700 to 1000 meters as a large sized, warm growing epiphyte or lithophyte on limestone often along streams with several stems carrying 3 to 5, erect-patent, linear-ligulate, unequally bilobulate apically leaves that blooms in the fall on a lateral, 2 to 4 flowered inflorescence.
Synonyms *Eria podochiloides Schltr. 1905; Lectandra podochiloides (Schltr.) Schltr. 1912; Trichotosia podochiloides (Schltr.) Kraenzl. 1911
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1912/85 as Lectandra podochiloides drawing fide; The Plants of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Orchids Beaman, Wood, Beaman & Beaman 1993 as P cf podochiloides; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Flora Malesia Orchids of New Guinea Vol V Shuiteman and de Vogel 2008; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011
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