Peristylus silvicola (Schltr.) P.F.Hunt 1971 Type Drawing by © Schlechter and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name The Woodland Living Peristylus

Flower Size

Found in New Guinea at elevations around 1000 meters as a medium to large sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with an oblong tuber giving rise to a strict to substrict, terete, glabrous, the lower half 5 sheathed, the upper half densely leafy stem carrying, 5 to 6, patent, closely sub rosulate, elliptic, acuminate, glabrous leaves that blooms in the winter on an erect, cylindrical, to 4" [10 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous bracts that are as long or a bit longer than the flowers.

Schlechter states that the flowers are pale blue green and the leaves are crowded together above the middle of the stem in a rosette.

Synonyms *Habenaria silvicola Schltr. 1911

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1912 as Habenaria silvicola Drawing fide;

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