Pomatocalpa incurvum (J.J.Sm.) J.J.Sm. 1913
Photos by J B Comber/Drawing by © Schlechter and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name The Incurved Pomatocalpa
Flower Size .6” [1 cm]
Found in New Guinea and the Solomon Islands on trees and smallshrubs at elevations of 200 to 250 meters as a miniature to small sized, hot growing epiphyte with a very short stem carrying erect-spreading, glabrous, ligulate, unequally and obtusely bilobed apcially leaves that blooms in the winter on a very short, to 1.2” [3 cm] long, densely several flowered inflorescence with small, obtuse floral bracts.
Synonyms *Cleisostoma incurvum J.J.Sm. 1911; Pomatocalpa potamophilum Schltr. 1913
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1913 as P potamophilum drawing fide; The Orchids of the Solomon Islands and Bougainville Lewis & Cribb 1991 as P potamophilum
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