Phreatia stenostachya (Rchb.f.) Kraenzl. 1911 SECTION Caulophreatia

Plant and Flowers Photos by © Karl Senghas and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name or Meaning The Thin Inflorescence Phreatia

Flower Size

Found in the Solomon Islands, New Caledonia, Fiji, Vanuatu and Samoa in montane forests at elevations around sealevel to 1500 meters as a miniature sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with clustered stems enveloped completely by leaf bases carrying 4 to 8, held in a fan, linear to linear-oblanceolate, obtuse leaves that blooms in the spring on a lateral, equal to or longer than the leaves, to 4.8" [12 cm] long, peduncle .4 to 1.6" [1 to 4 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Eria cauligera Rchb.f. 1878; *Eria stenostachya Rchb.f. 1868; Octarrhena cauligera (Rchb.f.) P.F.Hunt 1970; Phreatia cauligera Rchb.f. 1878; Phreatia outbatchensis Schltr. 1906; Pinalia cauligera (Rchb.f.) Kuntze 1891

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1913 as P cauligera; Flore de la Nouvelle-Caledonie et Dependences Vol 8 Orchidaceae Halle 1977 as P oubatchensis drawing fide; Orchids of Vanuatu Lewis & Cribb 1989; Orchids of the Solomon Islands and Bougainville Lewis & Cribb 1991 drawing good; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 41 pg 2565 - 2625 Brieger 2001 photo good;

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