Tainia papuana J.J.Sm. 1910 Type Drawing by © Schlechter and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name The Papuan Tainia

Flower Size

Found in the New Guinea and the Solomon Islands at elevations around 450 to 800 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with a decumbent rhizome giving rise to petioliform, terete, glabrous, slightly tapering towards the apex pseudobulbs carrying a single, broadly cordate-ovate, acuminate, glabrous leaf that blooms in the fall and winter on an erect, basally thick, terete, glabrous, to 7.2" [18 cm] long, rachis to 2" [5 cm] long, subsecund, laxly few [2 to 5] flowered inflorescence with narrowly lanceolate, acuminate floral bracts.

Synonyms Mischobulbum lancilabium Schltr. 1911; Mischobulbum papuanum (J.J.Sm.) Schltr. 1911

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1911 as Mischobulbum lancilabium Drawing fide; Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1911 as Mischobulbum papuanum; Die Orchideen Band 3 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas Liferung #14 820 - 880 1984 as Mischobulbon lancilabium; Die Orchideen Band 3 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas Liferung #14 820 - 880 1984 as Mischobulbon papuanum; Die Orchideen Band 3 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas Liferung #14 820 - 880 1984; The Orchids of the Solomon Islands and Bougainville Lewis & Cribb 1991 as Mischobulbum papuanum drawing good; Orchid Monographs Vol 6 Seidenfaden 1992 as Mischobulbum papuanum drawing fide; Orchids of Papua New Guinea Millar 1999 as Mischobulbum lancilabium photo fide;

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