Glomera pungens (Schltr.) J.J.Sm. 1912 SECTION Uniflorae
Plant and Flowers Photos by © Rogier Van Vugt and his P Base Orchid Photo Website
Drawing by Schlechter and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name or Meaning The Pointed Glomera [refers to the needle-like apices of the terete leaves]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in New Guinea in forests on tall trees hanging in large clumps at elevations around 1000 meters as a small sized, warm to cool, pendent growing epiphyte with a pendent, much branched, filiform, terete, leafy stem carrying subulate, sharply pointed, fleshy, glabrous, basally attenuate leaves that blooms in the winter on a single flowered inflorescence
Synonyms *Glossorhyncha pungens Schltr. 1912
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *The Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1913 as Glossorhynchya pungens drawing ok;
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