Mediocalcar crenulatum J.J.Sm. 1929

Another View in situ New Guinea Photos © by Paul Noben

Common Name The Crenulate Mediocalcar

Flower Size

Found in New Guinea at elevations around 3450 meters as a small sized, cold growing terrestrial with a creeping, long, branching rhizome giving rise to glabrous, subparellel-patent to and only in the basal part adnate to the rhizome, obliquely ovoid-cylindric pseudobulbs carrying 1 to 2, apical, erect, coriaceous, glabrous, oblong-elliptic to lanceolate, obtuse to acute or subequally bilobed leaves that blooms in the winter on a .88 to 1.43" [2.2 to 3.7 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of The High Mountains of New Guinea Royen 1979 drawing fide;

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