Calanthe engleriana Kraenzl. 1905 SUBGENUS Calanthe SECTION Calanthe SERIES Triplicata

Inflorescence and side view of flower Photos by © Peter O'Byrne and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

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Common Name Engler's Calanthe [German botanist 1800's]

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm] wide

Found in Papua New Guinea in humus in montane forests at elevations around 50 to 200 meters as a medium sized, hot growing terrestrial with close set, small pseduobulbsa carrying 5 to 8, plicate, many nerved, oblong-lanceolate, gradually narrowing below into the petiolate basae leaves that blooms in the late spring through fall on an elongate, peduncle terete, rachis to 12" [30 cm] long, overall to 44" [110 cm] long, moderately densely many flowered inflorescence with persistent, ovate-oblong floral bracts and carrying spreading, successively opening flowers.

Synonyms Calanthe latissimifolia R.S.Rogers 1925

References W3 Tropicos Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1912/1985 drawing fide!; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915; The Genus Calanthe Clayton & Cribb 2013 drawing/photo fide;

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