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Orchid Species: Podochilus formosanus

Kew currently accepted name is Appendicula reflexa

Podochilus formosanus is an orchid species identified by (Hayata) S.S.Ying in 1995. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Appendicula reflexa.
Genus
Podochilus (Podo.)
Grex
formosanus
Parents
Species
Author
(Hayata) S.S.Ying
Year
1995
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ORIGIN: Found in Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam, Borneo, Java, Lesser Sunda Islands, Malaysia, Moluccas, Philippines, Sulawesi, Sumatra, Bismarck Islands, New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Fiji, New Caledonia, Tonga, Vanuatu, Wallis and Futuna, and the Coral Islands in lowlands and hill forests at elevations of 100 to 1100.

DESCRIPTION: Small to medium sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte 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.

FLOWER SIZE: 0.1 inches [3 mm] -- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
Other Names
Genus Name Genus Grex Name Year Author
Add+ Appendicula App cleistogama 1912 Schltr.
Add+ Appendicula App micrantha 1845 Lindl.
Add+ Appendicula App minutiflora 1920 Ames & C.Schweinf. in O.Ames
Add+ Appendicula App reflexa 1825 Blume
Add+ Appendicula App wenzelii 1914 Ames
Add+ Appendicula App cordata 1890 Wibowo & Juswara
Add+ Appendicula App dalatensis 1961 Guillaumin
Add+ Appendicula App formosana 1911 Hayata
Add+ Appendicula App kotoensis 1911 Hayata
Add+ Appendicula App robusta 1924 Ridl.
Add+ Appendicula App vanikorensis 1932 Ames
Add+ Appendicula App vieillardii 1876 Rchb.f.
Add+ Appendicula App viridiflora 1862 Teijsm. & Binn.
Add+ Podochilus Podo kotoensis 1996 (Hayata) S.S.Ying
Add+ Podochilus Podo micranthus 1900 (Lindl.) Schltr.
Add+ Podochilus Podo neopommeranicus 1905 Schltr. in K.M.Schumann & C.A.G.Lauterbach
Add+ Podochilus Podo reflexus 1900 (Blume) Schltr.
Add+ Podochilus Podo taiwanianus 1977 S.S.Ying
Add+ Podochilus Podo vieillardii 1906 (Rchb.f.) Schltr.
Most awarded/recent cultivars: App. micrantha 'Marion' (2006)
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