Phreatia quadrata Schltr. 1913 SECTION Caulophreatia
TYPE Drawing by Schlechter and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
EARLY
EARLY 
Common Name The Square Phreatia [refers to the lip]
Flower Size
Found in New Guinea on trees in forests at elevations around 1100 to 1300 meters as a small sized, cool growing epiphyte with an elongate, densely leafy stem carrying erect-spreading, linear-ligulate, obtuse to unequally bilobed apically leaves that blooms in the winter and early spring on an erect, filiform, 4 to 6.8" [10 to 17 cm] long overall, twice as long as the leaves, sublaxly many flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acuminate, equal to or a little longer than the ovary floral bracts.
Schlechter states that the flowers are yellowish white.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1913 drawing fide
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