Trichotosia bracteata (Schltr.) P.F.Hunt 1970
Inflorescence 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 Bracted Trichotosia
Flower Size 3/4" [1.8 cm]
Found in New Guinea in lowland and lower montane forests at elevations of 50 to 670 meters as a medium to large sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with unbranched, terete, leafy stems enveloped completely by leaf bearing sheaths and carrying erect-patent, elliptic, obliquely acuminate, subvillose-puberulous to glabrous leaves that blooms in the late winter to early spring and mid summer on a pendulous, 3.2 to 6.4" [8 to 16 cm] long, 8 to 14 flowered inflorescence with patent, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, lower ones longer than the flowers, upper as long as the externally villose flowers
Synonyms *Eria bracteata Schltr. 1912
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *The Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1912/1985 as Eria bracteata drawing fide; Orchids of Papua New Guinea Millar 1999 as Eria bracteata photo not; Flora Malesia Orchids of New Guinea Vol V 2008
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