Podochilus falcatus Lindl. 1833

Inflorescence Photos © by Matthew Joel and Orchids Online Australia Website

Plant Photo © courtesy of Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria

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Common NameThe Falcate Podochilus

Flower Size

Found in India and Sri Lanka in submontane and tropical wet evergreen forests at elevations of 600 to 1850 meters as a miniature to small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte or terrestrial with a slender, nonpseudobulbous stem carrying distichous, equitant, laterally compressed, subulate to ovate-subulate, acute, subacute to obtuse, straight, erect, basally clasping leaves that blooms in the late spring, summer and earlier fall on a terminal, peduncle .02 " [5 mm] long, 1.4" [3.5 cm] long overall, few flowered inflorescence with ovate, acuminate, acute, basally cordate, persistent, minutely and sparsely spiny, 3 veined floral bracts.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; A Revised Handbook to the Flora of Ceylon Vol 2 Dassanayake & Fosberg 1981 drawing fide; The Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007 drawing ok;

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