Rhomboda atrorubens (Schltr.) Ormerod 1995 Type Drawing by © Schlechter and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name The Dark Red Rhomboda

Flower Size

Found in New Guinea at elevations around 1000 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with a decumbent, cauliform rhizome giving rise to an erect, basal half leafy, terete, glabrous stem carrying erect-patent, dark purple brown above, cherry red beneath, obliquely ovate-lanceolate, acute with a minute apicule, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the winter on an erect, to 2.8" [7 cm] long, laxly 4 to 8 flowered inflorescence with ovate-lanceoalte, acuminate, ciliate margin, half as long as the ovary floral bract.

Schlechter states that the sepals are brown red, the petals and lip are a translucent salmon color and the lip has a white apical lamina.

Synonyms Rhomboda novae-hiberniae (Schltr.) Ormerod 1995; *Zeuxine atrorubens Schltr. 1911; Zeuxine leucotaenia Schltr. 1922; Zeuxine novae-hiberniae Schltr. 1911

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1911 as Zeuxine atrorubens Drawing fide; Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1911 as Zeuxine torricellensis drawing good;

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