Didymoplexis torricellensis Schltr. 1911 Type Drawing by © Schlechter and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name The Torricelli Range Didymoplexis
Flower Size
Found in New Guinea at elevations around 800 meters as a mini-miniature to miniature sized, warm growing, mycoheterotrophic terrestrial with somewhat flexuous, substrict, terete, glabrous stems with a few squamiform, obtuse sheaths that blooms in the winter on an erect, sublax, 3 to 8 flowered inflorescence with minute, squamiform, obtuse floral bracts.
Schlechter states that the stems are black violet, the flowers are white with a grey outer keel on each of the petals and sepals and the 3 keels on the lip are golden yellow.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1911 Drawing fide;
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