Glomera flaccida (Schltr.) J.J.Sm.1912 SECTION Uniflorae

Drawing by Schlechter and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Part shade Warm EARLY fall

Common Name The Flaccid Glomera [refers to its thin pendent growth]

Flower Size

Found in New Guinea only on horizontal branches and twigs at elevations around 800 meters as a medium sized, warm, pendent growing epiphyte with a short rhizome giving rise to filiform, branching, thin, terete, leafy stems carrying glabrous, linear, acute, narrowing below into the somewhat subpetiolate base leaves that blooms in the fall on a terminal, single flowered inflorescence.

Synonyms *Glossorhyncha flaccida Schltr.1912

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1912 as Glossorhyncha flaccida drawing fide;

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