Phreatia cryptostigma Schltr. 1913 SECTION Saccophreatia Specimen at and The The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria

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

Common Name The Hidden Stigma Phreatia

Flower Size .1" [2.5 mm]

Found in New Guinea in montane forests at elevations of 900 to 3000 meters as a small sized, warm to cold growing epiphyte with globose pseudobulbs carrying 2, apical, ligulate, acute, gradually narrowing below into the base leaves that blooms in the winter and spring on a curved, distichous, sublaxly many flowered inflorescence with a few bracts and broadly elliptic, somewhat longer than 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 High Mountains of New Guinea Van Royen 1979 drawing ok;

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