Claderia papuana Schltr. 1911 SECTION Coriifolia Rchb.f

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

Common Name The Papua Claderia

Flower Size .24 to .28" [6 to 7 mm] long

Found in New Guinea at elevations of 170 to 250 meters as a medium sized, hot growing terrestrial with an elongate rhizome giving rise to distant, basally few leaved, terete stems carrying 3 to 4, lanceolate-elliptic, acuminate, narrowing below into the petiolate base leaves that blooms in the spring on a many branched, congested, densely and shortly puberulent rachis to 1.2" [3 cm] long, with patent, broadly ovate, obtuse, densely puberulent floral bracts.

Schlechter states that C viridiflora is similar but C papuana differs in the much broader petals, the different, broad lip structure, and its very bent column. He also states that the flowers are greenish-white with green veins and a brownish white lip with olive green veins and pure white keels.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *The Orchidaceae Of German New Guinea Schlechter 1911 drawing fide; Die Orchideen Band 3 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas Liferung #14 820 - 880 1984

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