디시디아 누물라리아-dischidia nummularia R.Br.

디시디아 누물라리아

 

dischidia nummularia R.Br.

 

국표에는 없고

 

nummularia를 넘물라리아, 누물라리아 등으로 ?

 

Origin and Habitat: Australia (Queensland), North East India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Myanmar, China (Hainan), Camboodia, Laos, South Vietnam, Malaysia (Malaya), Indonesia (Borneo, Java, Moluccas, Sulawesi, Timor), Philippines, Singapore. Thailand, Solomon Islands, and Papua New Guinea.

Common Names include:
ENGLISH: Button Orchid, String of Nickels

 

Description: Dischidia nummularia is an epiphytic climber-plants, glabrous except for flowers. It has tiny, opposite lens shaped leaves, and is frequently seen on the trunks of trees, resembling numerous hanging necklaces on branches. It is often seen in cultivation despite its inconspicuous yellowish-white flowers.
Stems: Slender, twining or creeping, rooting superficially on the branch of the supporting tree, glabrous to 1.5 m long, internodes longer than leaves.

Roots: Adventitious at the nodes.
Leaves: Tiny, opposite lens-shaped. Petiole 1-2 mm long 1 mm in diameter. Leaf blade orbicular to ovate, 7-14 mm long, 7-10 mm wide, flat, pale olive green to yellowish brown, farinose-white, tips with a minute mucro, base round or shortly cuneate, lateral veins obsolete.
Inflorescences (pseudumbels): Subsessile, glabrous, 1- 6-flowered. Peduncle 1-10 mm long; Pedicels 3-5 mm long, 1 mm in diameter.
Flowers: Sepals ovate 0.5-0.7 mm long, 0.5 mm wide, glabrous. Corolla white or yellowish, 3-4 long, 2-3 mm in diameter, tube 2-3 mm long, 2-3 mm wide, campanulate-urceolate. Lobes ovate-triangular, thickened at middle 2-2.5 long, 0.75-1 mm wide. Corona lobes anchor-shaped, shorter than gynostegium, stalked, apex 2-cleft, widely divergent, lateral arms oblong, pendulous.

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