Epiblastus basalis Schltr. 1911 Photo by Patricia Harding

Flower Closeup Photo courtesy of Marius Wasbauer

Plant in Situ Photo by Wolfgang H. Bandisch. Copyright © 1998, 1999 All rights reserved. And his Papua & New Guinea Orchid Species site

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Common Name The Basal Epiblastus

Flower Size

Found in Papua New Guinea in upper montane forests at elevations of 1100 to 2300 meters as a small to just medium sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte on moss covered tree trunks with pendulous to erect, cyclindrical, laterally compressed psuedobulbs with one, erect, lorate-ligulate, obtuse leaf which blooms in the fall with a short, slender, fasciculate inflorescence with 6 to 15 flowers .

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *The Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1911; The Orchids of Papua New Guinea An Introduction Millar 1978 photo ok; Orchids of Papua New Guinea Millar 1999 photo fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 41 pg 2565 - 2625 Brieger 2001 photos good; Flora Malesiana Orchids of New Guinea Vol III Shuiteman and de Vogel 2006

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