Ceratostylis ficinioides Schltr. 1912 SECTION Ceratostylis Type Drawing by © Schlechter and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name The Ficinia Like Ceratostylis [An African Plant Genus]
Flower Size
Found in New Guinea at elevations around 800 meters as a small sized, warm growing epiphyte with a short rhizome giving rise to thin, filiform pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, erect, glabrous, slightly furrowed above, subulate-filiform, terete, acute leaf that blooms in the fall on an apical, fasciculate, several flowered inflorescence.
Schlechter states that the flowers are a muddy reddish color with white petals and a pale yellow fronted lip
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1912 Drawing fide;
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