Calanthe tunensis J.J.Sm. 1900 SUBGENUS Calanthe SECTION Styloglossum
Drawings by J J Smith TYPE and Schlechter and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
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Common Name The Tuni Calanthe [An area of the Moluccas]
Flower Size .98" [2.4 cm]
Found in New Guinea and the Moluccas in beech forests at elevations of 800 to 1200 meters as a medium to large sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial or epiphyte with a very short rhizome giving rise to clustered, inconspicuous stems carrying more or less erect, narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, gradually narrwoing below into the 4 to 8" [10 to 20 cm] long, petiolate 6 to 12" [15 to 30 cm] long, base leaves that blooms in the late fall and early winter on a graceful, terete, glabrous, several clasping bracted, rachis 2.4 to 3.6" [6 to 9 cm] long, subdensely many flowered inflorescence with erect-patent, narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, as long as the flowers floral bracts.
Schlechter states that the flowers are golden yellow.
Synonyms Calanthe chrysoleuca Schltr. 1912; Calanthe flabelliformis R.S.Rogers 1925; Styloglossum chrysoleucum ( Schltr. ) T.Yukawa & P.J.Cribb 2014; Styloglossum tunense ( J.J.Sm. ) T.Yukawa & P.J.Cribb 2014
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1912 as C chrysoleuca drawing fide; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994 see excluded taxa; The Genus Calanthe Cribb & Clayton 2013;
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