Calanthe micrantha Schltr. 1912 SUBGENUS Calanthe SECTION Calanthe SERIES Calanthe

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

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Common Name The Small Flowered Calanthe

Flower Size

Found in New Guinea at elevations around 2200 to 2300 meters as a medium sized, rather slender, cold growing terrestrial with a short rhizome giving rise to filiform, elongate, flexuous, puberulous stems carrying in a rosette, erect-patent, dark green, oval to oblong-elliptic, acuminate, cuneate below into the dilated petiolate base leaves that blooms in the spring on a graceful, terete, minutely puberulous, peduncle to 20" [50 cm] long, with some scattered backward facing white hairs, few, clasping bracted, rachis to 6" [15 cm] long, subdensely many flowered inflorescence with erect-patent, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, pubescent, a little shorter than the ovary floral bracts carrying fragrant flowers.

Schlechter states that the small flowers are whitish-green with a nearly white [sometimes yellowish] lip.

Synonyms Calanthe curvatoascendens Gilli 1980 publ. 1983; Calanthe fragrans P.Royen 1979;

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

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