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Podochilus congestus is an orchid species identified by (Ridl.) Schltr. in 1900. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Appendicula congesta.
ORIGIN: Found only near Mt Kinabalu in Sabah Borneo in hill and montane forests low down on tree trunks at elevations of 700 to 2100 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Small sized, warm to cold growing epiphyte with clustered, porrect or slightly curved, stems carrying many variable in size, disitichous, narrowly elliptic, oblong-elliptic or ovate-elliptic, obtuse and unequally bilobed, basally clasping leaves that blooms all year on a terminal, .6 to 1.2 [1.5 to 2.8cm] long, densely many flowered, capituliform inflorescence with ovate-oblong, truncate, mucronate, crisped, erose, membraneous, 3 nerved, translucent, pale green floral bracts.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.1 inches [2 mm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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