Taeniophyllum clementsii (D.L.Jones & B.Gray) Kocyan & Schuit. 2014

Plant and Flowers in situ Photos by © M A Clements and The Australian Tropical Rainforest Orchid Website

Common Name Clements' Taeniophyllum

Flower Size .04" [1 mm]

Found in far northeastern Queensland Australia in highland rainforests on trees often in the twigs of the outer canopy at elevations of 1000 to 1250 meters as a cool growing epiphyte with green, adpressed to the host roots giving rise in the winter and spring on an axillary, elongating during flowering, peduncel filiform, hailess, rachis thick, fleshy, zig-zag, .4 to 1.2" [1 to 3 cm] long, successively 1 to 2, 5 to 50 flowered inflorescence with distichous bracts.

Synonyms *Microtatorchis clementsii D.L.Jones & B.Gray 2006

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

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