Taeniophyllum neotorricellense Kocyan & Schuit. 2014

TYPE Drawing by © Schlechter and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name The New Torricell Range Taeniophyllum

Flower Size minute

Found in New Guinea on trees in forests at elevations around 800 meters as a super-mini-miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte with no stem and carrying about 4, erect-patent, elliptic, apiculate leaves that blooms in the winter on a flexuous, more than twice as long as the leaves, .6 to .8" [1.5 to 2 cm] long, sublaxly few to several flowered inflorescence with deltoid, acute floral bracts.

Schlechter stated that the flowers were yellow green.

Synonyms Microtatorchis torricellensis Schltr.,1913

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1913 as Microtatorchis torricellense drawing fide;

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