Phreatia bismarckiensis Schltr. 1913 SECTION Phreatia

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

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Common Name The Bismarck Range Phreatia

Flower Size

Found in New Guinea on trees in forests at elevations around 1300 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with almost no stem carrying 4, erect-patent, falcate-oblique, ligulate, obtuse, narrowing below into the base leaves that blooms in the late winter and early spring on an erect-spreading, slim, peduncle, few bracted, a little shorter than the leaves, 1.6" [4 cm] long, subsecund, subdensely many flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acuminate, as long as the ovary floral bracts.

Schlechter states that the flowers are white.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1913 drawing fide

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