Calanthe spathoglottoides Schltr. 1912 SUBGENUS Calanthe SECTION Calanthe SERIES Sylvatica

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

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Common Name The Spathoglottis-Like Calanthe [refers to the flowers]

Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]

Found in New Guinea in humus in forests at elevations around 1300 meters as a small to just medium sized, cool growing terrestrial with a short rhizome giving rise to filiform, elongate, flexuous, puberulous stems carrying 3 to 4, erect-spreading, ovate, acuminate, cuneate below into the dilated, pubescent petiolate base leaves that blooms in the early summer on an erect, terete, witha few minute, pubescent bracts, minutely puberulous, rachis to 3.2" [8 cm] long, laxly 4 to 7 flowered inflorescence with erect-patent, lanceolate, acuminate, minutely pubescent, shorter than the ovary floral bracts.

Schlechter states that the flowers are violet red with a golden yellow lip callus and a white column.

Synonyms

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

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