Phreatia elongata Schltr. 1913 SECTION Caulophreatia Drawing By © Lewis & Cribb 1991
TYPE Drawing by Schlechter and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
EARLY
LATE 
Common Name The Elongate Phreatia [refers to the stem]
Flower Size
Found in New Guinea on trees in forests at elevations around 600 to 1200 meters as a small to medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with an elongate, somewhat compressed, densely leafy stem carrying erect-spreading, ligulate, obtuse and unequally bilobed apically leaves that blooms in the winter to late spring on an erect, filiform, peduncle to 2 to 3.6" [5 to 9 cm] long, few bracted, 4 to 10.8" [10 to 27 cm] long overall, twice as long as the leaves, densely many flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, subequal to 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; The Orchids of the Solomon Islands and Bougainville Lewis & Cribb 1991 drawing;
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