Appendicula torricelliana Schltr. 1912SECTION Appendicula

Drawing by Schlechter and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

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Common Name The Torricelli Range Appendicula

Flower Size

Found in New Guinea at elevations around 1000 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with a very short rhizome giving rise to simple, erect to suberect, glabrous, densely leafy stems, enveloped completely by tightly clasping leaf bearing sheaths and carrying erect-patent, oval, unequally bicuspidate apically, glabrous leaves that blooms in the late winter and early spring on a terminal, shorter to as long as the leaves, .32 to .48" [.8 to 1.2 cm] long, densely several flowered inflorescence with oblong, obtuse to apiculate, shorter than the ovary floral bracts.

Schlechter states that the flowers are a pale rose red becoming yellowish with age.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1912 drawing fide

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