Glomera hamadryas (Schltr.) J.J.Sm. 1908 SECTION Uniflorae

Plant and Flower Photos courtesy of Dr. E.F. de Vogel, André Schuiteman, and Jaap Vermeulen and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website. and Flora Malesiana Vol III

Common Name The ? Glomera

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in New Guinea in hill and montane forests at elevations of 500 to 1800 meters as a small to medium sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with decumbent to pendulous, branching, terete, slightly compressed towards the apex stems carrying many, erect, linear-ligulate, coriaceous, unequally bilobulate leaves that blooms in the summer on a terminal, single flowered, sessile inflorescence with cucullate, slightly longer than the ovary floral bract.

Synonyms Glomera acutipetala J.J.Sm. 1929; Glomera fimbriata J.J.Sm. 1910; Glomera hamadryas var foliosa Schlechter 1912; Glomera pulchra (Schltr.) J.J.Sm. 1912; Glossorhyncha acutipetala (J.J.Sm.) P.Royen 1974; Glossorhyncha daymanensis P.Royen 1979; Glossorhyncha fimbriata (J.J.Sm.) Schltr. 1912; *Glossorhyncha hamadryas Schltr. 1905; Glossorhyncha pulchra Schltr. 1912; Glomera hamadryas var phaeotricha Schlechter 1912;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1912 as Glossorhyncha hamadryas drawing fide; Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1912 as Glossorhyncha hamadryas var foliosa; Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1912 as Glossorhynchahamadryas var phaeotricha; Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1912 as Glossorhyncha pulchra; The Orchids of the High Mountains of New Guinea Van Royen 1979 as Glossorhyncha fimbriata drawing ok; The Orchids of the High Mountains of New Guinea Van Royen 1979 as Glossorhyncha hamadryas drawing ok; The Orchids of the High Mountains of New Guinea Van Royen as Glossorhyncha daymanensis drawing ok; The Orchids of the High Mountains of New Guinea Van Royen as Glossorhyncha acutipetala drawing ok; Flora Malesiana Orchids of New Guinea Vol III Shuiteman and de Vogel 2005

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