Appendicula reflexa

Appendicula reflexa Blume, Bijdr. Fl. Ned. Ind. 7: 301 (1825).

Appendicula reflexa Blume, Photo by Dot

its native range is Taiwan, Indo-China to W. Pacific.

Latin Name: 

Appendicula reflexa Blume

Family: 

Orchidaceae Juss.

Synonym:

Podochilus reflexus (Blume) Schltr.

Accepted Infraspecifics:

Appendicula reflexa var. cycloglossa (Schltr.) Schltr.

Appendicula reflexa var. kotoensis (Hayata) T.P.Lin

Appendicula reflexa var. reflexa

English Name:

The Back-Bent Appendicula.

Chinese name:

Tai Wan Niu Chi Lan - 台湾牛齿兰 .

Description: 

With close set, terete, simple stems carrying many oval, basally twisted, shortly unequally bilobed apically, basally lightly clasping leaves with sheaths persisting long after the leaves have fallen, that blooms in the summer and fall on lateral, on the back of the stems, 10 to 12 flowered inflorescence with close set flowers that do not open well.

Distribution:

Bismarck Archipelago, Borneo, Cambodia, Caroline Is., Fiji, Jawa, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Maluku, New Caledonia, New Guinea, Nicobar Is., Philippines, Santa Cruz Is., Solomon Is., Sulawesi, Sumatera, Taiwan, Thailand, Tonga, Vanuatu, Vietnam, Wallis-Futuna Is. 

Ecological:

In lowlands and hill forests at elevations of 100 to 1100 m as a small to medium sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte.

Flowering times:

Blooms in the summer and fall.

Flower size:

3.0 mm.

Cultivation:

Warm to intermediate growing epiphyte, keep in shade.

Typus:

Jan 1, 1977 Vieillard, E. [1290], New Caledonia K000810809 isotype

Reference: 

theplantlist.org

https://www.ipni.org/n/616948-1

http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:616948-1

http://www.orchidspecies.com/appreflexa.htm 

http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=242412206

http://www.orchidsnewguinea.com/orchid-information/species/speciescode/1658