Mediocalcar agathodaemonis J.J.Sm. 1910 Photos courtesy of André Schuiteman, Dr. E.F. de Vogel and Jaap Vermeulen and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website. and Flora Malesiana Vol IV

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Flower Size .4 to .55" [1 to 1.4 cm]

Found in New guinea, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu in mossy forests on trunks and logs or in alpine grasslands in moss cushions or on tree fern at elevations of 760 to 3600 meters as a miniature sized, warm to cold growing epiphyte or terrestrial with cylindrical to ovoid, basally elongated, pseudobulb and carrying 1 to 2 apical, sessile to subpetiolate, linear to elliptic, flat to rarely semi-terete, glabrous, margins entire, apically rounded and somewhat bilobed leaves that blooms at any time of the year on a solitary, synanthous, to 1.4" [to 3.5 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence. DIffers form Mediocalcar bifolium in the flowers without white tips, a synanthous inflorescence and wider leaves and pseudobulbs.

Synonyms Eria agathodaemonis (J.J.Sm.) Kraenzl. 1911; Mediocalcar alpinum J.J.Sm. 1914; Mediocalcar alpinum var. spathipetalum J.J.Sm. 1915; Mediocalcar bifolium var. validum J.J.Sm. 1913; Mediocalcar dependens J.J.Sm. 1914; Mediocalcar luteococcineum Schltr. 1911; Mediocalcar minjense P.Royen 1979

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