Octarrhena filiformis (L.O.Williams) P.Royen 1979 Specimen at and The The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria
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Common Name The Filiform Tenuis
Flower Size .08" [2mm]
Found in New Guinea subalpine shrubberies at elevations of 2590 to 3260 meters as a miniature sized, cold growing epiphyte with erect, slender, straight below becoming flexuous above stems carrying in the upper half, 1 to 5, erect-patent, glabrous to warty, slightly falcate, obliquely lanceolate-ensiform, acutish leaves that blooms in the later fall and winter on a angular, glabrous, patent then pendent and flexuous, .08 to .2" [2 to 5 mm] long, to 3 flowered inflorescence.
Synonyms *Chitonanthera filiformis L.O.Williams 1946; Chitonanthera filiformis var. brachyphylla L.O.Williams 1946; Octarrhena filiformis var. brachyphylla (L.O.Williams) P.Royen 1979; Octarrhena filiformis var. glabra P.Royen 1979
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of the High Mountains of New Guinea Van Royen 1979 as drawing ok;
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