Pteroceras philippinense (Ames) Garay 1972
Plant and Inflorescence Photo by © Karl Senghas and the Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Rernz Herbaria Website.
Common Name The Philippine Pteroceras
Flower Size .8" [2 cm]
Found in the Philippines at elevations of 3 to 750 meters as a miniature to small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with a semi-pendulous, short stem enveloped by leaf bases carrying alternate, linear to oblong to oblong-lanceolate, leathery, unequally notched apically leaves that blooms in the fall, winter, spring and summer on an axillary, pendulous, slender, shorter than the leaves, to 3.6" [9 cm] long, pubescent, successively few, loosely to 20 flowered inflorescence
Synonyms Pteroceras pustulatum Senghas 1989; Sarcochilus hubbardianus L.O.Williams 1937; Sarcochilus philippinensis (Ames) Ames 1915; *Thrixspermum philippinense Ames 1913 publ. 1914
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Complete Writings on Philippine Orchids Vol 1 Quisumbing 1981 as Sarcochilus hubbardianus; Orchidiana Philippiana Valmayor 1984; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 21 1165 - 1328 Brieger 1988 as P pustulatadrawing ok/photo fide; Philippine Native Orchid Species Cootes 2011 photo fide
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