!Sarcanthopsis nagarensis (Rchb. f.) Garay 1972 Photo by Copyright © Dustin Janeke and Troy Meyers Flasking Website

Plant and Flowers in situ Photo courtesy of Wolfgang H. Bandisch. Copyright © 1998, 1999 All rights reserved. And his Papua & New Guinea Orchid Species site

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Common Name The Nagare Sarcanthopsis

Flower Size 1 1/2" [4 cm]

Mainly found as a giant sized, hot growing, monopodial epiphyte on large trees but also possible as a lithophyte on rock cliff faces in lowland areas near the sea in New Guinea at elevations of sealevel to 1000 meters with a monopodial, elongate stem carrying, alternate, strap-like, coriaceous, dark green, apically rounded leaves that has an erect, axillary, branched, 2' [60 cm] long, loosely many flowered inflorescence and carries many slightly fragrant, nodding flowers occuring in the summer and fall.

Synonyms Sarcanthopsis curvata (J.J.Sm.) Garay 1972; *Sarcanthus nagarensis Rchb. f. 1868; Sarcanthus praealtus Rchb.f. 1886; Sarcanthopsis pantherina (J.J.Sm.) Garay 1972; Sarcanthopsis praealta (Rchb.f.) Garay 1972; Stauropsis nagarensis (Rchb. f.) Rolfe 1909; Vandopsis chalmersiana F.Muell. & Kraenzl. 1894; Vandopsis curvata J.J.Sm. 1914; Vandopsis nagarensis (Rchb. f.) Schltr. 1913; Vandopsis pantherina J.J.Sm. 1929; Vandopsis praealta (Rchb.f.) J.J.Sm. 1912; Vandopsis raymundii Schltr. 1921; Vandopsis warocqueana (Rolfe) Schltr.1906

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1914/1985 as Vandopsis warocqueana (Rolfe) Schltr.1906; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 21 1165 - 1328 Brieger 1988 as V raymundii; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 21 1165 - 1328 Brieger 1988 as S pantherina drawing ok; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 21 1165 - 1328 Brieger 1988 as S curvata; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 21 1165 - 1328 Brieger 1988 as S praealta; Orchids of Vanuatu Lewis & Cribb 1989 drawing fide; The Orchids of the Solomon Islands and Bougainville Lewis & Cribb 1991 drawing ggod; Lowland Orchids of Papua New Guinea Peter O'Byrne 1994 drawing/photo; Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 2 2008;

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