Thelasis abbreviata (Schltr.) W.Kittr. 1984 publ. 1985 SUBGENUS Thelasis
Drawing by Schlechter and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
LATE EARLY
Common Name The Abbreviated Thelasis [refers to the rachis]
Flower Size
Found in New Guinea on trees in forests at elevations around 70 meters as a mini-miniature to miniature sized, hot growing epiphyte with a short rhizome giving rise to oblong, ancipitous pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, erect, ligulate, unequally and obtusely bilobed apically, glabrous leaf that blooms in the late summer and early fall on a thinly erect, peduncle to 2.4" [6 cm] long, few bracted, terete, glabrous, rachis very short, densely many flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acute shorter than the ovary floral bracts.
Schlechter states that the flowers are brownish flesh colored.
Synonyms *Oxyanthera abbreviata Schltr. 1913
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1913 as Oxyanthera abbreviata drawing fide;
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