Tropidia viridifusca Kraenzl. 1929 Photo by © Societe' Neo-Caledonienne D' Orchidophile

Common Name The Green and Brown Tropidia

Flower Size

Found in the Norfolks Island, New Caledonia and Vanuatu 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

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flore de la Nouvelle-Caledonie et Dependences Vol 8 Orchidaceae Halle 1977 drawing fide; Native Orchids of New Caledonia Societe' Neo-Caledonienne D' Orchidophile 1995 photo fide;

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