Ceratostylis platychila Schltr. 1905 SECTION Ceratostylis Photo courtesy of Dr. E.F. de Vogel, André Schuiteman, and Jaap Vermeulen and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website

Common Name or Meaning The Broad Lipped Ceratostylis

Flower Size /6" [1.5 cm]

Found only in Papua New Guinea in lower montane forests at elevations around 1000 meters as a miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte with tubular, slender, glabrous stems basally enveloped by emarcescent sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, terete, acute leaf that blooms in the winter on very short, single flowered inflorescence holding the flower at the apex of the leaf.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Malesiana Orchids of New Guinea Vol III Shuiteman and de Vogel 2006