Tainia trinervis (Blume) Rchb.f. 1857
Photo by Peter O'Byrne
Photos courtesy of André Schuiteman, Dr. E.F. de Vogel and Jaap Vermeulen and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website
Common Name The Three-Nerved Tainia - in Australia - The Ribbon Orchid
Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]
Found in the Moluccas, New Guinea, Australia and the Solomon Islands in lower montane forests at elevations of 700 to 1200 meters as a medium to large sized, hot to warm growing terrestrial with a cylindrical, slightly basally swollen pseudobulb carrying a single, apical, plicate, elliptic, acute, thin 3 nerved leaf that blooms in the spring summer and fall on an erect, basal, 11.2" to 29.6" [28 to 69 cm] long, 11 to 25 flowered inflorescence carrying several simultaneous flowers.
Synonyms Dendrobium paucifolium Reinw. ex Blume 1856; Mitopetalum parviflorum Blume 1859; Mitopetalum plicatum Blume 1856; Mitopetalum rubescens Blume 1859; *Mitopetalum trinerve Blume 1856; Mitopetalum trinervium Blume 1859; Tainia parviflora (Blume) Schltr. 1911
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Bonplandia Rchb.f 1857; The Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1914/1985 as T parviflora drawing fide; Die Orchideen Band 3 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas Liferung #14 820 - 880 1984; Die Orchideen Band 3 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas Liferung #14 820 - 880 1984 as T parviflora; The Orchids of the Solomon Islands and Bougainville Lewis & Cribb 1991 drawing fide; Orchid Monographs Vol 6 Seidenfaden 1992 drawing fide; Identification of the Orchids [Orchidaceae Juss.] Vietnam Averyanov 1994 as T pauciflora; Lindleyana Vol 17 No 1 2002; Native Orchids of Australia Jones 2006 photo fide; Flora Malesia Orchids of New Guinea Vol V 2008; Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 15 P.O'Byrne 2015 photo/drawing fide;
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