Podochilus similis Blume 1849

TYPE Drawing by © Blume and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name or Meaning The Similar Podochilus

Flower Size .06" [1.5 mm]

Found in southern Sumatra and Borneo in mangrove swamps and other humid lowland environs at elevations near sea level as a small to medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with pendulous, freely branching stems carrying, all along and acutely angled to the stem, linear, shortly acute leaves that blooms on a terminal, short, to 8 flowered inflorescence with ovate, acuminate, concave, shorter than the ovaries floral bracts.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001; Orchids of Sarawak Beaman, Wood & Beaman etal 2001

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