Epiblastus acuminatus Schltr.1911

Another Angle Photos by Dr Ed de Vogel © and the Orchids of New Guinea Website

Common Name or Meaning The Acuminate Epiblastus

Flower Size

Found in New Guinea on trees in lowland forests at elevations around 300 meters as a medium sized, hot growing epiphyte with an elongate rhizome giving rise to cylindrical, slightly compressed, superposed pseudobulbs arising from near the tip of the previous pseudobulb and carrying lorate-ligulate, acute, apiculate leaf that blooms in the fall on a shortly fasciculate, filiform, glabrous, to 3.6" [9 cm] long, 15 to 20 flowered inflroescence

Synonyms *Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1911 drawing fide;

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