Cystorchis orphnophilla Schltr. 1911 Type Drawing by © Schlechter and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name The Shade Loving Cystorchis

Flower Size

Found in New Guinea at elevations around 800 meters as a small sized, warm growing terrestrial with a decumbent, cauliform rhizome giving rise to an erect, basally leafy, terete, glandulous-puberulous stem carrying erect-patent, dark reddish-brown, subrosulate, ovate, acute to subacute, glabrous, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the winter on an erect, subdensely few [often 3] flowered inflorescence with erect-patent, lanceolate, acuminate, puberulous, as long as the ovary floral bracts.

Schlechter states that the flowers are white, the sepals have brownish in the middle and a yellow apex to the lip.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1911 Drawing fide;

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