Phreatia caulescens Ames 1908 SECTION Caulophreatia
photo by © Purification Orchids and their Philippine Orchid Website
TYPE Drawing by © Oakes Ames
Common Name The Stem Forming Phreatia - In China Chui Jing Fu Lan
Flower Size .12" [3mm]
Found in the Philippines, Vanuatu and Taiwan in montane forests at elevations around 1800 meters as a miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with a leafy stem carrying, distichous, linear, bilaterally flattened leaves that blooms in the winter and summer on a lateral, [9 to 17 cm] long, several to many flowered inflorescence with linear, acumniate floral bracts.
Synonyms Octarrhena caulescens (Ames) Ames 1915
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Studies in the Family Orchidaceae Fascile 2 Ames 1908 drawing fide; Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1913; Die Orchideen #6 21-24 tafel 7 Rudolph Schlechter 1971 as Octarrhena caulescens photo ok; The Complete Writings on Philippine Orchids Vol 1 Quisumbing 1981 as Octarhena caulescens; The Orchids of Vanuatu Lewis & Cribb 1989; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009;
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