Taeniophyllum physodes Schltr. 1913 SUBGENUS Taeniophyllum SECTION Trachyrachis Schlechter
TYPE Drawing by © Schlechter and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
EARLY
Common Name The Bellows Taeniophyllum [refers to the spur?]
Flower Size
Found in New Guinea on trees at elevations around 400 meters as a small sized, hot growing epiphyte without leaves that blooms in the fall on a subepedunculate, laxly, successively single, 5 to 10 flowered inflorescence with triangular floral bracts.
Schlechter stated that the flowers are sulphur yellow with a paler spur.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1913 drawing fide
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