Calanthe cruciata Schltr. 1912 SUBGENUS Calanthe SECTION Styloglossum

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

Common Name The Cross-Like Calanthe

Flower Size .8" [2 cm]

Found in New Guinea in humus within hill forests at elevations around 300 to 1000 meters as a large sized, hot to warm growing terrestrial with a very short rhizome giving rise to stems carrying 7, narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, gradually narrowing below into the petiolate base leaves that blooms in the summer through fall on a erect, terete, glabrous, peduncle few bracted, to 18" [45 cm] long, rachis to 4" [10 cm] long, to 22" [55 cm] long overall, densely many flowered inflorescence with deciduous floral bracts.

Schlechter states that the flowers are pure white.

Synonyms Styloglossum cruciatum ( Schltr. ) T.Yukawa & P.J.Cribb 2014

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1912 drawing fide; The Genus Calanthe Cribb & Clayton 2013 photo fide;

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