Glomera brachychaete (Schltr.) J.J.Sm. 1912 SECTION Uniflorae

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

Part shade Warm EARLY Winter

Common Name The Short Column Glomera

Flower Size

Found in New Guinea at elevations around 900 meters as a large sized, warm, pendent growing epiphyte with a short rhizome giving rise to compressed, leafy stems carrying erect-patent, glabrous, narrowly lanceolate, oblique apically, subacute, narrowing below into the subpetiolate base leaves that blooms in the early winter on a terminal, single flowered inflorescence.

Schlechter states that the lip has 2 spots at the apex of the lip, otherwise the flower is snow white.

Synonyms *Glossorhyncha brachychaete Schltr. 1912

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

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