Taeniophyllum clavatum Schltr. 1913 SUBGENUS Taeniophyllum SECTION Trachyrachis Schlechter
TYPE Drawing by © Schlechter and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
LATE EARLY
Common Name The Club Like Taeniophyllum
Flower Size .24" [6 mm]
Found in New Guinea at elevations around 1300 meters as a medium sized, cool growing epiphyte without leaves that blooms in the late winter and early spring on a densely muricate-hispid, spiralling, , 6" [15 cm] long, several flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acuminate floral bracts.
Schlechter stated that the flowers are golden yellow. This species, T latipetalum, T quaquaversum and T robustum are unique in the genus by the spiralling inflorescence
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1913 draing fide;
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