Sarcochilus uniflorus Schltr.1913

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

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Common Name The Single Flowered Sarcochilus

Flower Size 3/4" [2.1 cm] long,

Found in New Guinea in lower montane forests at elevations of 1000 to 2200 meters as a miniature to small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with a stem enveloped completely by striate, rugulose leaf-bearing sheaths each carrying patent, linear-ligulate, unequally slightly bilobulate, narrowing towards the base leaves that blooms in the winter spring and fall on many, fascicled, very short, single flowered inflorescence.

Synonyms Monanthochilus uniflorus (Schltr.) R.Rice 2004; Pteroceras singuliflorum Garay 1972

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *The Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1914/1985; Flora Malesia Orchids of New Guinea Vol V 2008;