Phreatia koordersii Rolfe 1899

Plant and Flowers Photos by © Peter O'Byrne and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Deep Shade HotCoolLATE Fall EARLYWinter

Common Name Koorders Phreatia

Flower Size .8" [2 mm]

Found in Sulawesi in montane forests and in agricultural areas at elevations of 1000 to 2500 meters as a small sized, warm to cold growing epiphyte with a fan of conduplicate, acute, basally clasping leaves that blooms in the late fall and early winter on an axillary, erect, densely many flowered inflorescence

Very similar to P densiflora and P laxiflora but differs in more rhombic petals and a papillose lip base and claw.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; A to Z of South East Asian Orchid Species Vol 2 O'Byrne 2011 photo fide

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