
Pristiglottis occulta (Blume) Cretz. & J.J.Sm. 1934
Photos by © J B Comber
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Common Name or Meaning The Hidden Pritiglottis
Flower Size
Found in Borneo and western Java at elevations just above 1000 meters as a miniature sized, cool growing terrestrial with several stems arising from the horizontal one, each carrying 4, very small, ovate, acute, dark green, lower ones with a short petioe, above sessile leaves that blooms in the late winter and early spring on an erect, 2 to 3 flowered inflorescence.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Java Comber 1990 photos fide; Orchids of Sarawak Beaman, Wood & Beaman etal 2001
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