Thelasis phreatioides J.J.Sm. 1911 SUBGENUS Oxyanthera
Plant and Flowers Photos by André Schuiteman, courtesy of Dr. E.F. de Vogel and Jaap Vermeulen and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website
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Common Name The Phreatia-Like Thelasis
Flower Size .1" [.28 cm]
Found in New Guinea on limestone hills or coral rock in lowland forests at elevations of 5 to 450 meters as a small sized, hot growing epiphyte with a short, fleshy stem carrying 6 to more, distichous, dense, patent, ligulate, obliquely obtuse, mid rib grooved above, keeled below, gradually conduplicate below leaves that blooms in the late winter and spring on an axilalty, sigmoid, rather densely many flowered, sub-elliptic in cross-section, 4.4" [11 cm] long inflorescence with
Synonyms Phreatia digulana Schltr. 1913; Phreatia phreatioides (J.J.Sm.) L.O.Williams 1946; Rhynchophreatia phreatioides (J.J.Sm.) Schltr 1921
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1914/1985 as Phreatia digulana; Flora Malesia Orchids of New Guinea Vol V 2008;
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