Ceratostylis glabriflora Schltr. 1912 SECTION Ceratostylis Type Drawing by © Schlechter and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name The Glabrous Flowered Ceratostylis

Flower Size

Found in New Guinea at elevations around 2400 meters as a small to medium sized, cold growing epiphyte with a short rhizome giving rise to thin, glabrous, terete pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, erect, glabrous, coriaceous, flat, linear, longly acuminate, narrowing below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on an apical, fasciculate, few flowered inflorescence.

Schlechter states that the flowers are reddish with a golden yellow apex to the lip.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1912 Drawing fide;

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