Bogoria papuana Schltr. 1913

Plant and Flowers Photos by © Peter O'Byrne and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name The Papuan Bogoria

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in New Guinea and Sulawesi in hill forests and on twigs and branches of slender trees within riverine forests at elevations of 500 to 1200 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with a short stem carrying 3 to 5, crowded, oblong leaves that blooms in the fall on a pendent, successively 1 to 4, to 12 flowered inflorescence.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidaceaea of German New Guinea Schlechter 1913 drawing fide; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 22 1329 - 1392 Brieger 1989; A to Z of South East Asian Orchid Species Vol 2 O'Byrne 2011 photo fide

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