Calanthe neohibernica Schltr. 1905 SUBGENUS Calanthe SECTION Styloglossum

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

EARLY

Common Name The New Ireland Calanthe [The Bismarck Archipelago]

Flower Size .64" [1.6 cm]

Found in the Bismarck archipelago in mossy montane forests at elevations around 600 meters as a medium sized, warm growing terrestrial with an elongate, filiform, flexuous, tomentose rhizome giving rise to stems carrying 3 to 4, plicate, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, basally gradually narrowing into the 11.6" [29 cm] long, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the early winter on a lateral, arising from the stem base, peduncle to 15.2" [38 cm] long, many bracted, rachis to 2.8" [7 cm] long, to 18" [45 cm] long overall, subdensely many flowered inflorescence with deciduous, lanceolate, acuminate, longer than the ovary floral bracts.

Schlechter states that the flowers are white.

Synonyms Styloglossum neohibernicum ( 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;

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