Appendicula
Appendicula carnosa ( fig.I ) Appendicula torta ( fig. II and III) Figure in Volume 2: Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach: Xenia Orchidacea (1874 )
The genus Appendicula from the orchid family (Orchidaceae) consists of about 136 species. The plants grow mostly epiphytic, they are found in tropical Asia.
Description
The Appendicula species grow sympodial. The rather thin shoots are branched in some species, its cross section can be round or compressed. The shoot axis is densely covered with two rows arranged leaves. The leaf bases include the shoot and cover it completely, there is a separating tissue between leaf base and leaf blade. In some species, the leaf blades are rotated so that they all lie in one plane. The closely with several small, resupinierten flowers occupied inflorescences arise laterally from the leaf axils or are terminally, in some species both. The flowers are white, greenish or pink colored. The petals are not fused together, but form the lateral sepals and the lip together with the extended base of the column ( pillar ) a short sac. The lip is simple or three-lobed at the base and has a backward-looking appendage. At the end of the short column is the stamen with six about club-shaped pollinia into two groups. These are one or two stalks with a common small viscid disc ( Viscidium ) connected. An elongated, usually zweigelapptes rostellum separates the stamen of the scar.
Dissemination
The species of the genus Appendicula are widespread in tropical Asia. To the northwest, the area attracts along the Himalayan southern slopes, facing southeast southern China, Indo-China and the Indonesian archipelago, one species is reached even the north of Australia. A wide variety of species found in Sumatra and New Guinea.
They are mostly epiphytic plants growing more humid and seasonally dry tropical forests, some species preferred on rocks or terrestrial growing.
Systematics and botanical history
The genus Appendicula is counted for Eriinae subtribe within the tribe Podochileae. Related genera are Chitonochilus, Poaephyllum and Podochilus.
Appendicula was described in 1825 by Carl Ludwig Blume, the name refers to the characteristic appendage on the lip.
There are 136 species described following valid:
- Appendicula aberrans Schltr.
- Appendicula adnata J.J.Sm.
- Appendicula alatocaulis p.o ' Byrne & J.J.Verm.
- Appendicula alba flower
- Appendicula anceps flower
- Appendicula angustifolia flower
- Appendicula annamensis Guillaumin
- Appendicula anomala ( Schltr. ) Schltr.
- Appendicula babiensis J.J.Sm.
- Appendicula baliensis J.J.Sm.
- Appendicula bilobulata J.J.Wood
- Appendicula biumbonata Schltr.
- Appendicula bracteosa Rchb.f. in B.Seemann
- Appendicula brevimentum J.J.Sm.
- Appendicula buxifolia flower
- Appendicula calcarata Ridl.
- Appendicula calcicola Schltr.
- Appendicula callifera J.J.Sm.
- Appendicula carinifera Schltr.
- Appendicula carnosa flower
- Appendicula celebica ( Schltr. ) Schltr.
- Appendicula cleistogama Schltr.
- Appendicula clemensiae ( Ames) Ames
- Appendicula clemensiorum J.J.Wood
- Appendicula concava Schltr.
- Appendicula congenera flower
- Appendicula congesta Ridl.
- Appendicula cornuta flower
- Appendicula crispa J.J.Sm.
- Appendicula cristata flower
- Appendicula crotalina ( Ames) Schltr.
- Appendicula cuneata Ames
- Appendicula dajakorum J.J.Sm.
- Appendicula damusensis J.J.Sm.
- Appendicula dendrobioides ( Schltr. ) Schltr.
- Appendicula densifolia ( Ridl. ) Ridl.
- Appendicula djamuensis Schltr.
- Appendicula effusa ( Schltr. ) Schltr.
- Appendicula elegans Rchb.f.
- Appendicula elmeri ( Ames) Ames
- Appendicula fallax Schltr.
- Appendicula fasciculata J.J.Sm.
- Appendicula fenixii ( Ames) Schltr.
- Appendicula flaccida ( Schltr. ) Schltr.
- Appendicula floribunda ( Schltr. ) Schltr.
- Appendicula foliosa Ames & C.Schweinf. in O.Ames
- Appendicula fractiflexa JJWood in JJWood & al.
- Appendicula furfuracea J.J.Sm.
- Appendicula gjellerupii J.J.Sm.
- Appendicula gracilis Aver.
- Appendicula grandifolia Schltr.
- Appendicula hexandra ( J.König ) J.J.Sm.
- Appendicula humilis Schltr.
- Appendicula imbricata J.J.Sm.
- Appendicula inermis Carr
- Appendicula infundibuliformis J.J.Sm.
- Appendicula irigensis Ames
- Appendicula isoglossa Schltr.
- Appendicula Jacobson J.J.Sm.
- Appendicula kaniensis Schltr.
- Appendicula kjellbergii J.J.Sm.
- Appendicula krauseana Schltr.
- Appendicula lamprophylla Schltr.
- Appendicula latilabium J.J.Sm.
- Appendicula laxifolia J.J.Sm.
- Appendicula leytensis Ames
- Appendicula linearifolia Ames & C.Schweinf.
- Appendicula linearis J.J.Sm.
- Appendicula longa J.J.Sm.
- Appendicula longibracteata Ridl.
- Appendicula longirostrata Ames & C.Schweinf.
- Appendicula lucbanensis ( Ames) Ames
- Appendicula lucida Ridl.
- Appendicula lutea Schltr.
- Appendicula luzonensis ( Ames) Ames
- Appendicula magnibracteata Ames & C.Schweinf.
- Appendicula malindangensis ( Ames) Schltr.
- Appendicula maquilingensis Ames
- Appendicula merrillii Ames
- Appendicula micrantha Lindl.
- Appendicula mimica Ormerod
- Appendicula minutiflora Ames & C.Schweinf.
- Appendicula negrosiana ( Ames) Ames
- Appendicula neohibernica Schltr.
- Appendicula nivea ( Schltr. ) Schltr.
- Appendicula oblonga Schltr.
- Appendicula ovalis ( Schltr. ) J.J.Sm. ex Mansf.
- Appendicula padangensis Schltr.
- Appendicula palustris J.J.Sm.
- Appendicula pandurata ( Schltr. ) Schltr.
- Appendicula patentissima J.J.Sm.
- Appendicula pauciflora Blume
- Appendicula pendula flower
- Appendicula penicillata flower
- Appendicula perplexa ( Ames) Ames
- Appendicula peyeriana Kraenzl.
- Appendicula pilosa J.J.Sm.
- Appendicula podochiloides J.J.Sm.
- Appendicula polita J.J.Sm.
- Appendicula polyantha Ames
- Appendicula polyphylla Schltr.
- Appendicula polystachya ( Schltr. ) Schltr.
- Appendicula pseudofractiflexa J.J.Wood
- Appendicula pseudopendula ( Schltr. ) Schltr.
- Appendicula purpurascens flower
- Appendicula purpureifolia J.J.Sm.
- Appendicula ramosa flower
- Appendicula recondita J.J.Sm.
- Appendicula reflexa Blume
- Appendicula rostellata J.J.Sm.
- Appendicula rostrata J.J.Sm.
- Appendicula rubens ( Schltr. ) Schltr.
- Appendicula rupestris Ridl.
- Appendicula rupicola ( Ridl. ) Rolfe
- Appendicula salicifolia J.J.Sm.
- Appendicula schlechteri J.J.Sm. ex Ormerod
- Appendicula sepikiana Schltr.
- Appendicula seranica J.J.Sm.
- Appendicula spathilabris J.J.Sm.
- Appendicula steffensiana ( Schltr. ) J.J.Sm.
- Appendicula tagalensium Kraenzl.
- Appendicula tembuyukenensis J.J.Wood
- Appendicula tenuifolia J.J.Wood
- Appendicula tenuispica ( Schltr. ) Schltr.
- Appendicula theunissenii J.J.Sm.
- Appendicula togarupia Ormerod
- Appendicula torricelliana Schltr.
- Appendicula torta flower
- Appendicula triloba ( Schltr. ) Schltr.
- Appendicula uncata Ridl.
- Appendicula undulata flower
- Appendicula vanimoensis Ormerod
- Appendicula verruculifera J.J.Sm.
- Appendicula weberi Ames
- Appendicula werneri Schltr.
- Appendicula xytriophora Rchb.f. in B.Seemann