Podochilus bimaculatus Schltr. 1912

Drawing by Schlechter and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

EARLY

Common Name The Two Spotted Podochilus

Flower Size .16" [4mm]

Found in New Guinea and the Solomon Islands in lowland forests at elevations around 600 to 1000 meters as a small sized, warm growing epiphyte with elongate, branching rhizomes giving rise to branching, filiform, glabrous, terete, densely leafy stems, enveloped completely by tightly clasping leaf bearing sheaths and carrying erect-patent, oblong-ligulate to lanceolate-ligulate, glabrous, oblique, long apiculate apically, cuneate below into the base leaves that blooms in the winter and early summer on a terminal to subterminal, erect to pendant, shortly pedunculate, .2" [5mm] long, 2 to 4 flowered inflorescence with patent, glabrous flowers

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1912/85; The Orchids of the Solomon Islands and Bougainville Lewis & Cribb 1991 ; P>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------