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

Common Name The Fragrant Eurycentrum

Flower Size

Found in New Guinea at elevations around 2300 meters as a small sized, cold growing terrestrial with a decumbent, cauliform rhizome giving rise to an erect, basally leafy , terete, glabrous stem carrying patent, dark velvety brown with a fine whitish margin, subrosulate, ovate, acute to subacute, glabrous, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the spring on an erect, secund, 2.8" [7 cm] long, lax, 4 to 7 flowered inflorescence with erect-patent, lanceolate, acuminate, as long as the ovary floral bracts.

Schlechter states that the flowers are white, the sepals have a brownish flush and they are very nicely scented.

Synonyms

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

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