Pomatocalpa bambusarum (King & Pantl.) Garay 1972
Photos by © Kurt Keller
TYPE Drawing by © King & Pantling and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name The Bamboo-Like Pomatocalpa
Flower Size .35 to .45” [.88 to 1.2 cm]
Found in the eastern Himalayas at elevations around 400 to 500 meters as a miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with none to a very short stem carrying fleshy, linear-oblong, acute, keeled, channeled, slightly narrowing towards the base leaves that blooms in the spring on a pendulous, peduncle with 3 to 4 bracts, 1.5 to 6.5” [3.75 to 15.2 cm] long, rachis thickened, to 12 flowered inflorescence with lanceolate floral bracts.
Synonyms Cleisostoma bambusarum (King & Pantl.) King & Pantl. 1899; Saccolabium bambusarum (King & Pantl.) Tang & F.T.Wang 1951; *Sarcanthus bambusarum King & Pantl. 1896
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Sikkim-Himalaya King & Pantling 1899 drawing fide; Indian Orchids, A Guide to Identification and Culture Vol 2 Pradhan 1979 drawing good; Orchids of Bhuitan Pearce & Cribb 2002 drawing fide;
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