Podochilus lucescens Blume 1825
Photo by André Schuiteman, Dr. E.F. de Vogel and Jaap Vermeulenand Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website
Common Name or Meaning The Shining Podochilus [refers to the leaves]
Flower Size .6" [1.75 cm]
Found in Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, Java, Sumatra, Borneo and the Philippines in lowland, hill, lower montane and moss forests amongst mosses low down on tree trunks at elevations of [Sea-level] 150 to 1500 meters as a miniature to small sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte on trees or lithophye on mossy rocks near waterfalls with a rarely branching stem carrying 2 rows of distichous, imbricate, oblong, obtuse and finely apiculate leaves that blooms on a terminal, occasionally lateral, .55" to .8" [1.5 to 2 cm] long, 2 ranked, many flowered, fractiflex inflorescence with persistent, ovate, acute, concave floral bracts with barely opening, small flowers
Synonyms Podochilus robinsonii Ames 1911
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1857; Otia Botanica Hamburgensia Rchb.f 1878; Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/1995; Die Orchideen Von Java J.J.Sm. 1905; Die Orchideen Von Java Figuren Atlas J.J.Sm. 1908 drawing ok; Flora of Malaya Vol 1 Holttum 1957; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1960 drawing; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1965 corrections; The Complete Writings on Philippine Orchids Vol 1 Quisumbing 1981; Orchidiana Philipiniana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984; Orchids of Java Comber 1990; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Wood 1992 drawing?/photo ok; The Plants of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Orchids Beaman, Wood, Beaman & Beaman 1993 photo good; The Plants of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Orchids Beaman, Wood, Beaman & Beaman 1993 as P cf lusecens; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001 photo ok; Orchids of Sarawak Beaman, Wood & Beaman etal 2001; Lindleyana Vol 17 No 1 2002; AOS Bulletin Vol 72 No 8 2003 photo plant only; Genera Orchidacearum Vol 4 Part 1 Pridgeon, Cribb, Chase and Rasmuessen 2005; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 1 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011
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