Tropidia viridifusca Kraenzl. 1929
Photo by © Societe' Neo-Caledonienne D' Orchidophile
Drawing by © N Halle and Flore de la Nouvelle-Caledonie et Dependences Vol 8: 399 Orchidaceae Halle 1977
Common Name The Green and Brown Tropidia
Flower Size
Found in the Norfolks Island, New Caledonia and Vanuatu in mainly rocky soil at elevations of 100 to 600 meters in rainforests as a small to medium sized, hot to warm growing mycoheterotrophic terrestrial with branching stems without pseudobulbs carrying variable in shape, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the summer on an erect, very short to .4" [1 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence
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References
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Vierteljahrsschr. Naturf. Ges. Zürich 74: 71 Kraenzlin 1929
Flore de la Nouvelle-Caledonie et Dependences Vol 8: 397 Orchidaceae Halle 1977
Flore de la Nouvelle-Caledonie et Dependences Vol 8: 399 Orchidaceae Halle 1977drawing fide;
Native Orchids of New Caledonia Societe' Neo-Caledonienne D' Orchidophile 1995 photo fide;
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