Mediocalcar uniflorum Schltr.1911 SECTION Eu-Mediocalcar

Bisected Flower Photos by Dr Ed de Vogel © and the Orchids of New Guinea Website

Common Name or Meaning The Single Flowered Mediocalcar

Flower Size

Found in New Guinea on trees in montane forests at elevations of 800 to 2300 meters as a small sized, warm to cold growing epiphyte with a terete, decumbent rhizome giving rise to suberect, basally slightly dilated cylindrical pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, erect, ligulate, shortly and unequally bilobed apically leaf that blooms in the spring on a thin, .4 to .8" [1 to 2 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence.

Synonyms Mediocalcar rigidulum Schltr. 1919; Mediocalcar sepikanum Schltr. 1922; Mediocalcar uniflorum var. orientale Schltr. 1911

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1911 drawing fide; Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1911 as Mediocalcar uniflorum var. orientale; Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 6 321 - 384 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1975 drawing fide

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