Pomatocalpa wendlandorum [Rchb.f]J.J.Sm. 1912 Photo by Manorot Tangsaveepha and his Butterfly and Orchids Website.

Plant and Inflorescence Photo and Award winning plant "Ruby" CBR/AOS courtesy of Wilford Neptune.

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Common Name Wendland's Pomatocalpa [German Botanical Gardener]

Flower Size about 1/4" [6mm]

This small sized, hot to warm growing, monopodial species with a very stout stem carrying 6 to 10, broadly lorate, bilobed apically, nerveless leaves that blooms on a lateral to arcuate, to 5.2" [13 cm] long, shorter than the leaf, racemose to paniculate inflorescence with many small flowers that blooms in the spring and is found in the Himalayas, Myanmar and the Andaman Islands.

Cited as a synonym of Pomatocalpa spicatum but at this time I will leave them separate pending more information.

Synonyms *Cleisostoma wendlandorum Rchb.f 1856; Saccolabium wendlandianum (Rchb. f.) Kraenzl. 1894; Saccolabium wendlandianum (Rchb.f.) Kraenzl. 1893

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Xenia Orchidaceae Vol 3 Reichenbach 1893 as Saccolabium wendlandorum drawing; A Century of Indian Orchids Vol 5 Hooker 1895 as Cleisostoma wendlandorum drawing fide; The Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/95 as Cleisostoma wendlandorum; The Orchids of Sikkim-Himalaya Part 1 King & Pantling 1898 as Cleisostoma wendlandorum drawing fide; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Die Orchideen lieferung 19/20 Schlechter/Brieger 1988;

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