Tropidia acuminata Schltr. 1911
Photos courtesy of Dr. E.F. de Vogel Andre Schuiteman and Jaap Vermeulen and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website and Flora Malesiana Vol V
TYPE Drawing by Schlechter
Common Name The Acuminate Tropidia
Flower Size 3/8" [.9 cm] long
Found in New Guinea in lowland montane forests at elevations of 250 meters as a medium to large sized, hot growing terrestrial with a slender sparsely branched to not, rigid stems enveloped almost completely by imbricate clasping, striate veined leaf sheaths and each carrying erect-patent to patent, elliptic, acuminate, narrowing towards the base glabrous, seven veined leaves that blooms in the fall on a terminal, densely several flowered, flexuose, .6 to 1" [1.5 to 2.5 cm] long inflorescence with a few small lanceolate scales and patent, lanceolate, acute, often longer than the lower flowers floral bracts and carrying non-resupinate flowers.
Kew now puts this one as a synonym of T pedunculata But I have left them separate for now pending more research.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 1: 92 Schlechter 1911
Orchidaceae of German New Guinea: 161 Schlechter 1911/1985
Orchidaceae of German New Guinea: 164 Schlechter 1911/1985 drawing good;
Flora Malesia Orchids of New Guinea Vol V 2008
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