Agrostophyllum parviflorum J.J.Sm. 1908 SECTION Agrostophyllum
Plant Photos courtesy of Dr. E.F. de Vogel, André Schuiteman, and Jaap Vermeulen and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website. and Flora Malesiana Vol III
Common Name The Small Flowered Agrostophyllum
Flower Size .1" [3 mm]
Found in the Moluccas and New Guinea in shady montane forests at elevations of sealevel to 1000 meters as a medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with close set, laterally compressed, many leafed stems carrying patent, basally half twisted, linear-lanceolate, obtuse, shortly bilobulate, mucronate, basally slightly narrowed and conduplicate, grooved along the midrib, keeeled below, coriaceous leaves that blooms in the winter, spring, summer and fall on a terminal, nodding, densely capitate, semiglobose inflorescence with oblong, strongly concave, obtuse, membraneous floral bracts.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1912 drawing good Lindleyana Vol 17 No 1 2002; Flora Malesiana Orchids of New Guinea Vol III Shuiteman and de Vogel 2005
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