Megastylis latissima (Schltr.) Schltr. 1911Photo by © Gildas Gateble and The Endemia New Caledonia Website

Plant in situ New CaledoniaPhoto by © Edouard Faria and The Stanhopea Passion Website

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Common Name The Broadest Megastylis

Flower Size .8" [2 cm]

Found in southeastern New Caledonia in dense humid forests at elevations of 800 to 1500 meters as a large sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with large, broadly elliptic, long-petiolate base leaves that blooms in the late spring on an erect, terminal, rachis 6" [15 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence.

Synonyms Lyperanthus daenikerianus Kraenzl. 1929; *Lyperanthus latissimus Schltr. 1906; Lyperanthus vieillardii Kraenzl. 1928

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915; Flore de la Nouvelle-Caledonie et Dependences Vol 8 Orchidaceae Halle 1977 drawing fide; Native Orchids of New Caledonia SNCO 1995 photo fide;

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