Podochilus serpyllifolius (Blume) Lindl. 1859
Photo by © J.B.Comber and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Photo by © Ed de Vogel
Drawing by © J.J.Smith and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name The Serplyli-Like Leaved Podochilus [A type of field Thyme]
Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]
Found in Malaysia, Java Bali and Borneo on tree trunks in mixed dipterocarp forests, mossy rocks, small trees in lower montane forests at elevations of 700 to 1800 meters as a small to medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with a creeping, branching, terete stem carrying oblong, apiculate, broadest near the base leaves that blooms in the early spring on both terminal and lateral, .15" [4 mm] long, fractiflex, 3 to 4 flowered inflorescence with triangular, acute, concave floral bracts.
Synonyms Cryptoglottis serpyllifolia Blume 1825; Hexameria disticha R.Br. 1838
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1857 as Cryptoglottis serpyllifolia; Die Orchideen Von Java J.J.Sm. 1905; Die Orchideen Von Java Figuren Atlas J.J.Smith 1908 drawing fide; Orchids of Java Comber 1990 photo fide; Orchids Travel By Air A Pictoral Safari Mulder, Mulder-Roelfsema and Schuiteman 1990 photo fide; The Plants of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Orchids Beaman, Wood, Beaman & Beaman 1993; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001 Photo fide; Orchids of Sarawak Beaman, Wood & Beaman etal 2001; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 1 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011; Gard. Bull. Singapore 68[1]:90 Sulistiarini, Arifiani & Santika 2016 drawing/photo fide;
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