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Flower Closeup Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt, plant grown by Gerardus Staal

Common Name The Two-Leafed Mediocalcar

Flower Size 2/5" [1 cm]

Found in New Guinea, The Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu as a creeping, ascending, miniature sized warm to cold growing epiphyte or lithophyte forming mats from montane, rain and subalpine forests and shrublands or on mossy rocks or roadcuts at altitudes up to 1800 meters with obliquely ovoid, green pseudobulbs carrying 2 apical, oblanceolate, obtuse or acute leaves and blooms at any time of the year on a 1/3" [1 cm] long, single flowered, axillary inflorescence arising from the apice of a newly developing psuedobulb that has a solitary, bell shaped, long-lasting flower which can occur at most any time of the year.

Synonyms Eria bifolia (J.J.Sm.) Kraenzl. 1911; Mediocalcar agathodaemonis J.J.Sm. 1910; Mediocalcar albicoccineum P.Royen 1979; Mediocalcar alpinum J.J.Sm 1914; Mediocalcar alpinum var. spathipetalum J.J.Sm 1915; Mediocalcar angustifolium Gilli 1980; Mediocalcar angustum J.J.Sm. 1934 ; Mediocalcar bifolium var. validum J.J.Sm. 1913; Mediocalcar brevisaccatum Schltr. 1919; Mediocalcar compressicalcar J.J.Sm. 1929; Mediocalcar dependens J.J.Sm. 1914; Mediocalcar diphyllum Schltr. 1911; Mediocalcar erectum Schltr. 1911; Mediocalcar filopedunculatum Gilli 1980 publ. 1983; Mediocalcar luteococcineum Schltr. 1911; Mediocalcar minjense P.Royen 1979; Mediocalcar montanum Ridl. 1916; Mediocalcar monticola Schltr. 1911; Mediocalcar retusum J.J.Sm. 1929

References W3 Tropicos [http://mobot.mobot.org/W3T/Search/vast.html] , Kew Monocot list [ http://www.kew.org/wcsp/home.do ], IPNI [ http://www.us.ipni.org/ipni/plantsearch?request_type=search&output_format=query&ret_defaults=on ] The Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1985; Flora Malesiana Orchids of New Guinea Vol IV Shuiteman and de Vogel 2006

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