Taeniophyllum maximum J.J.Sm. 1910 SUBGENUS Taeniophyllum SECTION Loboglossum Schlechter

TYPE Drawing J J Smith

LATE EARLY

Common Name or Meaning The Largest Taeniophyllum

Flower Size

Found in Papua New Guinea in lowland forest at elevations around 170 meters as a large sized, hot growing epiphyte with a very short leafless stem giving rise to numerous, elongated, flattened, 30" {75 cm] long roots that blooms in the late fall, winter and early spring on a long pedunculate, peduncle stout, terete, 11.8" [29.5 cm] long, peduncle-scales small, very few, rachis angular, 1.12" [2.8 cm] long, successively single, many-flowered inflorescence with very dense, spirally arranged, patent, fleshy, triangular, concave, dorsally keeled and adnate to the middle part of a shorter, irregularly triangular, dentate appendage with free margins floral bracts carrying fleshy flowers.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Bull. Dép. Agric. Indes Néerl. 39: 20 J J Smith 1910 drawing fide;

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