Platylepis lamellata Schltr. 1911 Type Drawing by © Schlechter and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name The Laminate Platylepis

Flower Size

Found in Papua New Guinea at elevations around 1000 meters as a small to medium sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with a decumbent, cauliform rhizome, giving rise to a strict to subflexuous, terete, glabrous, basally leafy stem carrying about 3 to 5, subrosulate-approximate, erect-patent, ovate, acuminate, rounded below into the petiolate base leaves that blooms in the winter on an erect, to 3.2" [8 cm] long, subsecund, 6 to 12 flowered inflorescence with erect-patent, elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate floral bracts.

Schlechter states that the leaves are pale green with darker veins and the flowers are green, the lip is brownish-yellow with a white middle lobe.

Synonyms Moerenhoutia lamellata (Schltr.) Schltr. 1921

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1911 Drawing fide;

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