Rhomboda alticola [Schlechter] Omerod 1995

Plant and Flowers Photos courtesy of André Schuiteman, Dr. E.F. de Vogel and Jaap Vermeulenand Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website

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Common Name The High Elevation Rhomboda

Flower Size .8 to .9" [2 to 2.3 cm]

Found in New Guinea inmontane forests at elevations of 2000 to 2650 meters as a medium sized, cold growing terrestrial with a decumbent, stem-like rhizome giving rise to a terete, glabrous stem carryiong 3 to 5, erect, patent to suberect, obliquely elliptic, acuminate, basally rounded, glabrous, petilate base leaves that blooms in the summer and fall on erect, 6.8" [to 17 cm] long, laxly many flowered, elongated, cylindrical inflorescence witha few distant bracts and ovate, lanceolate, acuminate, usually a little shorter than the ovary floral bracts.

Synonyms Rhomboda alticola var finisterrae Omerod 1995; Zeuxine alticola Schlechter 1911

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidacaea of German New Guinea Schlechter 1911 as Zeuxine alticola drawing good; Flora Malesiana: Orchids of New Guinea Vol 5 Schuiteman & D de Vogel 2008

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