Thelasis wariana (Schltr.) Schuit. & de Vogel 2012 publ. 2011 SUBGENUS Oxyanthera

Drawing by J J Smith and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

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Common Name The Waria Range Thelasis

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Found in New Guinea on trees in forests at elevations of 350 to 450 meters as a miniature to small sized, hot growing epiphyte with 6 to 10, erect spreading, semiterete, subfiliform-linear, unequally bilobed apcially leaves that blooms in the late summer and fall on a thin, erect, glabrous, few bracted, equalto or slightly longer than the leaves, rachis .8" [2 cm] long, subdensely many flowered inflorescence with recurved, ovate-cucullate, acuminate, shorter than the pedicel floral bracts.

Schlechter states that the flowers are yellowish brown.

Synonyms *Phreatia wariana Schltr. 1913; Rhynchophreatia wariana (Schltr.) Schltr. 1921

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1913 as Phreatia wariana drawing fide; Orchids of Papua New Guinea Millar 1999 as Rhynchophreatia micrantha;

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