Flickingeria A.D.Hawkes, Orquidea 27 (1965) 301

Subfamily: Epidendroideae

Tribe: Undetermined

Subtribe: Dendrobiinae

Synonyms: Abaxianthus M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones , Desmotrichum Blume , Ephemerantha P.F.Hunt & Summerh.

A genus of c. 60 species; c. 52 species in Malesia.

Distribution: Southeast Asia, Malesia, Australia, east to Samoa

Seidenfaden, G. 1980. Orchid genera in Thailand IX: Flickingeria Hawkes and Epigeneium Gagnep. Dansk Bot. Ark. 34(1): 1 - 104.

 

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Flickingeria luxurians (J.J.Sm.) A.D.Hawkes, cultivated at the Hortus Botanicus, Leiden, from Sulawesi Flickingeria luxurians (J.J.Sm.) A.D.Hawkes, cultivated at the Hortus Botanicus, Leiden, from Sulawesi Flickingeria luxurians (J.J.Sm.) A.D.Hawkes, drawing by J.J. Smith
 
Flickingeria comata (Blume) A.D.Hawkes, cultivated at the Hortus Botanicus, Leiden, from Papua New Guinea Flickingeria tetraloba P.O'Byrne & J.J.Verm., cultivated at the Hortus Botanicus, Leiden, from Sulawesi  

last updated: 15 May 2007 by André Schuiteman

Malesian Orchid Genera