Goodyera venusta Schltr. 1911 SECTION Goodyera Type Drawing by © Schlechter and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name The Charming Goodyera

Flower Size

Found in Papua New Guinea at elevations around 900 meters as a miniature to small sized, warm growing terrestrial with a terete, glabrous, leafy above the middle stem carrying about 3 to 5, velvet green intricately veined in silver-white, patent, lanceolate, acute, rounded below into the petiolate base leaves that blooms in the fall on an erect, several to 7 flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate, acute floral bracts.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1911 Drawing fide; Checklist of Papusian Orchids Ormerod 2017;

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