Calanthe ventilabrum Rchb.f. 1868 SUBGENUS Calanthe SECTION Styloglossum
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Common Name The Wind-Blown Lip Calanthe
Flower Size 1/2" [1.25 cm]
Found in the Moluccas, New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Fiji, New Caledonia, Samoa, Santa Cruz and Vanuatu in cloud forests at elevations of 580 to 1700 meters as a medium to large sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with clustered, inconspicuous pseudobulbs hidden by the leaf bases of the 4 to 6, plicate, lanceolate, acuminate, gradually narrowing below into the elongate, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring through fall on a lateral, from the base of the pseudobulb, erect, peduncle 7.2 to 8.6" [18 to 21 cm] long, rachis 2.4 to 2.8" [6 to 7 cm] long, overall 14 to 26" [35 to 65 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence with deciduous, lanceolate, acuminate bracts and drooping flowers.
Synonyms Calanthe bigibba Schltr. 1911; Calanthe chrysantha Schltr. 1905; Calanthe chrysantha var. orbicularis J.J.Sm. 1934; Calanthe langei F.Muell. 1885; Styloglossum chrysanthum ( Schltr. ) T.Yukawa & P.J.Cribb 2014; Styloglossum ventilabrum ( Rchb.f. ) T.Yukawa & P.J.Cribb 2014
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1912 as C chrysantha drawing good; Flore de la Nouvelle-Caledonie et Dependences Vol 8 Orchidaceae Halle 1977 as C langei drawing fide; The Orchids of Papua New Guinea An Introduction Millar 1978 as C chrysantha photo ok; Orchids of Vanuatu Lewis & Cribb 1989 as C langei; The Orchids of the Solomon Islands and Bougainville Lewis & Cribb 1991 drawing good/photo fide; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Cribb & Wood 1994 as C tunensis excluded taxa; Native Orchids of New Caledonia Societe Neo-Caledonienne D'Orchidophile 1995 as C langei photo fide; Orchids of Samoa Cribb & Whistler 1996 drawing/photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 67 No 7 1998 as C langei photo fide; Orchids of Papua New Guinea Milar 1999 as C chrysantha photo fide; Lindleyana Vol 17 No 1 2002; Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 7 2011; The Genus Calanthe Clayton & Cribb 2013 as C chrysantha drawing/photo good; The Genus Calanthe Clayton & Cribb 2013 drawing/photo fide; Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 15 Ormerod 2015 drawing fide
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