Agrostophyllum djararatense Schltr. 1911 SECTION Agrostophyllum Comber
Plant Photos by © Peter O'Byrne and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name or Meaning The Djarat Agrostophyllum [Bukit Jarat an area of western Sumatra near Padang Panjang]
Flower Size .56" [1.4 cm]
Found in Sumatra at elevations around 1400 meters as a medium sized, cool growing epiphyte with an erect stem carrying strap-shaped, somewhat acute, minutely and unequally bilobed apcially, suddenly narrowed and cuneate near the base leaves that blooms in the summer on a semi-globose corymb of several 3 to 4 flowered inflorescence bundled closely together with avate, shortly acuminate outer bracts and ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, as long as the ovaries floral bracts.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001 drawing fide; Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 20 2017;
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