Nervilia platychila Schltr. 1906
Photos by © Agnes Rinehart
Drawing by © Nicolas Halle
Common Name The Broad Lipped Nervilia
Flower Size .8" [2 cm]
Found in Fiji, the Carolina Islands, the Mariana Islands and New Caledonia in rainforests at elevations around 100 to 200 meters as a mini-miniature sized, hot growing terrestrial with 2 different states, one is sterile and has a single, orbicular-cordate, sparsely hairy, obtuse leaf and the other a small leafless stalk that blooms in the summer on an erect, 2 to 5.2" [5 to 13 cm] long, few flowered inflorescence
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flore de la Nouvelle-Caledonie et Dependences Vol 8 Orchidaceae Halle 1977 drawing fide; Ferns and Orchids of the Mariana Islands Raulerson & Rinehart 1992 photo fide;
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