Phreatia limenophylax (Endl.) Rchb.f. 1857 Photo by © Jean Jacques Villegente and Die Pflasnzenwelt Polynesiens Website

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

Common Name or Meaning The ? Phreatia

Flower Size

Found in the Solomon Islands, New Caledonia, Norfolk Islands, Vanuatu, Fiji, Wallis and Futuna, and Samoa in dense humid rain or strand forests as a miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with a very short stem carrying 5 to 8 extremely fleshy leaves arranged in a fan that blooms in the later spring summer and fall on an axillary, erect, shortly pedunculate, many flowered inflorescence carrying minute green flowers

CAUTION I have no way of personally verifying this determination so please use with caution!

Synonyms Eria limenophylax (Endl.) Rchb.f. 1857; Oberonia crassiuscula F.Muell. ex Benth. 1873; Oberonia lindleyana Brongn. 1834; Phreatia lindleyana (Brongn.) Benth. & Hook.f. ex B.D.Jacks. 1894; Phreatia pachyphylla Schltr. 1906; Phreatia vitiensis Rolfe 1909; Pinalia limenophyllax (Endl.) Kuntze 1891; *Plexaure limenophylax Endl. 1833; Sarcochilus microphyton Kraenzl. 1929

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flore de la Nouvelle-Caledonie et Dependences Vol 8 Orchidaceae Halle 1977 as P pachyphylladrawing good; Native Orchids of New Caledonia Societe Neo-Caledonienne D'Orchidopilie 1995 as P pachyphylla Photo ok;

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