Calymmanthera major Schltr. 1913
Flower Closeup Photos courtesy of © Jim Comber, André Schuiteman, Dr. E.F. de Vogel and Jaap Vermeulen © and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website
Common Name The Large Calymmnathera
Flower Size tiny
Found in New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Fiji in montane forests on tall trees at elevations around 400 meters as a small sized, hot growing epiphyte with a shorter stem carrying ligulate, oblique, acute, coriaceous leaves that blooms in the summer on an axillary, 10 to 12" [25 to 30 cm] long, paniculate, laxly many flowered inflorescence
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *The Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1913[1985]; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915; Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 23 1393 - 1456 Brieger 1990 drawing/photo fide; The Orchids of the Solomon Islands and Bougainville Lewis & Cribb 1991 drawing fide
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