Macropodanthus alatus (Holttum) Seidenf. & Garay 1988
Photo by © Martin EpicPhals and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website
Photo by © Karel & Alex Petrzelka and the Vietnam Orchid Website
Common Name The Winged Macropodanthus [refers to the side lobes of the lip]
Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]
Found in the Andaman Islands, Thailand, Malaysia and Vietnam in broad-leaved, evergreen lowland forests at elevations of 300 to 1350 meters as a small sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with fleshy, bilobed with acute convergent point leaves that blooms in the fall on a pendulous, to 14" [to 35 cm] long, to 25 flowered inflorescence with the fragrant flowers facing all directions.
Synonyms Macropodanthus tridentatus Seidenf. 1988; Pteroceras alatum (Holttum) Holttum 1960; *Sarcochilus alatus Holttum 1953
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Gard. Bull. Singapore 14:5 Holttum 1953 drawing fide; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smitinand 1963 as Pteroceras alatum drawing fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 21 1165 - 1328 Brieger 1988 drawing fide/ photo not = Pteroceras teres; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 21 1165 - 1328 Brieger 1988 as M tridentatus; Opera Botanica #95 Seidenfaden 1988 Drawing fide/photo not = Pteroceras teres; Opera Botanica #95 Seidenfaden 1988 as M tridentatus Drawing fide to the 3rd photo; The Orchids of Penninsular Malysia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Wood 1992 drawing fide/photo not = Pteroceras teres; The Orchids of Penninsular Malysia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Wood 1992 as Macropodanthus tridentatus drawing fide to the 3rd photo; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007; Wulfenia 22 [2015]: 137 - 188 New Orchids in the Flora of Vietnam Averyanov, Nguyen, Tich, Nguyen, Nong, Nguyen and Xuan Drawing/photo fide
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