Collabium vesicatum (Rchb.f.) Schltr. 1911 Type Drawing by © Schlechter and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

EARLY

Common Name The Bladder Collabium

Flower Size .8 to 1" [2 to 2.5 cm]

Found in New Guinea, the Bismark Archipelago, the Solomon Islands, Fiji, New Caledonia and Vanuatu at elevations of 200 to 1400 meters as a miniature to small sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial or epiphyte with an elongate, non-branching rhizome with 3" [7.5 cm] between each pseudobulb, the first 1 to 3, carrying a single, ovate to oblong, acute to acuminate, 5 to 7 nerved, prominent below attenuate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the early winter on an erect, peduncle 2.4 to 5.6" [6 to 14 cm] long, rachis terete, to 3.4" [8.5 cm] long, 4 to 8 flowered inflorescence with patent sometimes refelexed, ovate to lanceolate floral bracts

Synonyms Chrysoglossum aneityumense Ames 1933; Chrysoglossum papuanum (Schltr.) J.J.Sm. 1910; *Chrysoglossum vesicatum Rchb.f. 1868; Collabium aneityumense (Ames) Seidenf. 1983 publ. 1984; Collabium papuanum (Schltr.) Schltr. 1911; Nephelaphyllum papuanum Schltr. 1905; Tainia papuana (Schltr.) Gagnep. 1932

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1911; Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1911 as Nephelaphyllum papuanum Drawing fide; Die Orchideen Band 3 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas Liferung #14 820 - 880 1984 as Chrysoglossum aneityumense; Die Orchideen Band 3 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas Liferung #14 820 - 880 1984 as C papuanum; Die Orchideen Band 3 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas Liferung #14 820 - 880 1984; The Orchids of the Solomon Islands and Bougainville Lewis & Cribb 1991 as Chrysoglossum vesicatumOrchid Monographs Vol 8 Van der Burgh & De Vogel 1997 drawing fide;

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