Spathoglottis grandifolia Schltr. 1912

Drawing by Schlechter and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

EARLY EARLY

Common Name The Large Leaved Spathoglottis

Flower Size 1.04" [2.6 cm]

Found in New Guinea on steep cliffs near creeks at elevations around 100 to 400 meters as a giant sized, hot growing terrestrial with a short rhizome giving rise to small pseudobulbs carrying 2 to 4, erect-patent, elliptic, acuminate, glabrous, cuneate below into the narrow, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the early winter and early summer on a substrict to arcuate, 72" [180 cm] long, rachis minutely pubescent, densely many flowered inflorescence with patent, oval, acuminate, glabrous, shorter than the ovary floral bracts.

Schlechter states that the flowers are violet-pink with darker lateral lobes of the lip and a yellow glabrous callus.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1912 drawing fide; Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 15 881 - 944 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1984;

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