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Stream orchid (Appendicula pendula)

Dlium Stream orchid (Appendicula pendula)

Stream orchid (Appendicula pendula) is a species of plant in the Orchidaceae, terrestrial orchids, leaves in rows on elongated stalks up to 100 cm long, sitting oppositely, alternately and green in color.

The leaves are elongated oval in shape, the upper side is shiny green, up to 10 cm long, up to 3 cm wide and with a sharp tip. Inflorescences in panicles at the ends of leaf stalks, radial, up to 10 cm long and hanging. The flowers are white.



TAXON

Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Tracheophyta
Subphylum: Angiospermae
Class: Liliopsida
Order: Asparagales
Family: Orchidaceae
Subfamily: Epidendroideae
Tribe: Podochileae
Subtribe: Eriinae
Genus: Appendicula Blume in Bijdr. Fl. Ned. Ind.: 297 (1825)
Species: Appendicula pendula Blume in Bijdr. Fl. Ned. Ind.: 298 (1825)

HOMOTYPIC SYNONYMS

Podochilus pendulus (Blume) Schltr. in Mém. Herb. Boissier 21: 48 (1900)

HETEROTYPIC SYNONYMS

Appendicula chalmersiana F.Muell. in S. Sci. Rec., n.s., 1: 91 (1885)
Appendicula dendrobioides (Schltr.) Schltr. in Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 1: 354 (1912)
Appendicula lancifolia Hook.f. in Fl. Brit. India 6: 84 (1890)
Appendicula latibracteata J.J.Sm. in Bull. Jard. Bot. Buitenzorg, sér. 2, 13: 37 (1914)
Appendicula latibracteata var. rajana J.J.Sm. in Mitt. Inst. Allg. Bot. Hamburg 7: 48 (1927)
Appendicula maingayi Hook.f. (1890)
Appendicula palustris J.J.Sm. in Bull. Dépt. Agric. Indes Néerl. 19: 4 (1908)
Appendicula palustris f. angusta J.J.Sm. in Nova Guinea 8: 117 (1909)
Appendicula papuana Kraenzl. in K.M.Schumann & C.A.G.Lauterbach, Nachtr. Fl. Schutzgeb. Südsee: 125 (1905)
Appendicula pendula var. chalmersiana (F.Muell.) J.J.Sm. (1909)
Appendicula pendula var. latibracteata (J.J.Sm.) Holttum in Fl. Males., Ser. 1, Spermat. 1: 500 (1953)
Appendicula philippinensis (Schltr.) J.J.Sm. in Orch. Ambon: 91 (1905)
Appendicula pseudopendula (Schltr.) Schltr. (1912)
Appendicula pseudopendula var. cryptostigma Schltr. (1912)
Appendicula rupicola (Ridl.) Rolfe in J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 42: 159 (1914)
Conchochilus distichus Hassk. in Tijdschr. Natuurl. Gesch. Physiol. 9: 146 (1842)
Podochilus dendrobioides Schltr. in K.M.Schumann & C.A.G.Lauterbach, Nachtr. Fl. Schutzgeb. Südsee: 117 (1905)
Podochilus lancifolius (Hook.f.) Schltr. (1900)
Podochilus palustris (J.J.Sm.) Ridl. in Trans. Linn. Soc. London, Bot. 9: 206 (1916)
Podochilus pendulus var. chalmersianus (F.Muell.) Ridl. (1916)
Podochilus philippinensis Schltr. (1900)
Podochilus pseudopendulus Schltr. (1905)
Podochilus rupicola Ridl. in J. Straits Branch Roy. Asiat. Soc. 50: 142 (1908)

PUBLICATIONS

Girmansyah, D. & al. (eds.) (2013). Flora of Bali an annotated checklist: 1-158. Herbarium Bogorensis, Indonesia.

Govaerts, R. (1995). World Checklist of Seed Plants 1(1, 2): 1-483, 1-529. MIM, Deurne.

Govaerts, R. (2003). World Checklist of Monocotyledons Database in ACCESS: 1-71827. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Ormerod, P., Kurzweil, H. & Watthana, S. (2021). Annotated List of Orchidaceae for Myanmar. Phytotaxa 481: 1-262.

Pedersen, H.Æ. & al. (2022). Flora of Thailand 12(3): 671-1015. The Forest Herbarium, Royal Forest Department.

Wood, J.J., Beaman, T.E., Lamb, A., Lun, C.C. & Beaman, J.H. (2011). The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu 2: 1-726. Natural history publications (Borneo), Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia.

VERNACULAR NAME

English: Stream orchid
Indonesian: Anggrek asri
Java: Asri

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