Calanthe coiloglossa Schltr. 1905 SUBGENUS Calanthe SECTION Calanthe SERIES Calanthe

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

EARLY

Common Name The ? Tongue Calanthe

Flower Size 1.28" [3.2 cm]

Found in New Guinea in humus at elevations around 600 meters as a large sized, warm growing terrestrial with a short rhizome giving rise to stems carrying 4 to 5, narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, to 16" [40 cm] long, broadest in the middle, minutely pubescent beneath, cuneate below into the shortly petiolate base leaves that blooms in the fall on a graceful, terete, glabrous, laxly many flowered inflorescence with persistent, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous much shorter than the ovary floral bracts.

Synonyms Calanthe apostasioides Schltr. 1912; Calanthe salmoniviridis P.Royen 1979

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1912 as Calanthe apostasioides drawing fide; The Orchids of The High Mountains of New Guinea Royen 1979 as Calanthe salmoniviridis; The Genus Calanthe Cribb & Clayton 2013

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