Calanthe graciliscapa Schlechter 1911 SUBGENUS Calanthe SECTION Calanthe Photos by © Th. Nordhausen and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name or Meaning The Graceful Inflorescence Calanthe

Flower Size .48" [1.2 cm]

Found in Sumatra in forests in humus at elevations around 1200 meters as a medium sized, cool growing terrestrial with pseudobulbs on a very short rhizome carrying 3 to 5, ovate-elliptic, acuminate, gradually narrowing below into the petiolate base leaves that blooms in the winter on an erect, much longer than the leaves, peduncle glabrous basally, gradually becoming pubescent apically, with a few sterile sheathing bracts, 16" [40 cm] long, rachis cylindrical, 10 to 20 flowered inflorescence with persistent, lanceolate, acuminate, finely pubescent, almost as long as the ovary floral bracts.

Similar to C flava but the flowers are white, the lip side lobes are divergent and narrower and the spur is slightly swollen towards the apex.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Sumatra J B Comber 2001; The Genus Calanthe Clayton & Cribb 2013 Photo fide;

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