Podochilus mentawaiensis J.J.Sm. 1932

TYPE Drawing by J J Smith

Common Name The Mentawai Podochilus [A group of islands off the west coast of Sumatra]

Flower Size .16" [4 mm]

Found in Sumatra on Siberut Island at elevations below 100 meters as a small sized, hot growing epiphyte with long, branching, thin, internoded stems carrying coutspread, oblong-elliptic, acute, apiculate leaves that blooms on a terminal to lateral, simple or in clusters, peduncle, thin, .08" [2 mm] long, rachis .1 to .24" [2.5 to 6 mm] long, 2 to 4 flowered inflorescence carrying white flowers.

J J Smith puts this species similar to P scurioides but this one is distinct because of the longer mentum, the broader lip, which is widest above the middle, and a much longer, linear appendix.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Bull. Jard. Bot. Buitenzorg, sér. 3, 12: 118 J J Smith 1932; REINWARDTIA Vol 1 Donk & Steenis 1950 drawing fide; Orchids of Sumatra J B Comber 2001

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