~Agrostophyllum denbergeri J.J.Sm. 1921 - See Agrostophyllum majus Hook.f. 1890 SECTION Agrostophyllum Comber
Photos by © J B Comber and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
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Common Name or Meaning Denberger's Agrostophyllum
Flower Size .14 to .132" [2.6 to 3.3 mm]
Found in Sumatra and Java in damp forests at elevations of 100 to 1500 meters as a medium to large sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with narrow, clustered, flattened, shiney pale green, stems carrying strap-shaped, obliquely rounded with a median spike apically leaves that blooms in the late fall and early winter on a nodding corymb, more or less globose, that is 1.6" [4 cm] in diameter consisting of many 3 to 4 flowered, short inflorescence with basally clasping, as long as the ovaries floral bracts.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Java Comber 1990 photo fide; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001 photo ok; Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 20 2017 as Syn of A majus;
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