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

Common Name The Torricelli Range Erythrodes

Flower Size

Found in New Guinea at elevations around 600 meters as a small sized, warm growing terrestrial with a decumbent, cauliform rhizome giving rise to an erect, basal 1/4 leafy, terete, glabrous stem carrying 5, erect-patent, obliquely lanceolate-elliptic, acute to subacuminate, glabrous, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the winter on a subsecund, to 3.6" [9 cm] long, subdensely 8 to 12 flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acuminate, as long as the ovary floral bracts.

Schlechter states that the flowers are occasionally flushed with red.

Synonyms

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

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