Tropidia gracilis Schltr. 1905

Type Drawing by © Schlechter

EARLY

Common Name The Graceful Tropidia

Flower Size

Found in New Guinea at elevations around 100 meters as a small to medium sized, hot growing terrestrial with filiform, elongate, flexuous, glabrous roots gibving rise to an erect, thinly flexuous stem carrying usually towards the apex, linear to linear-lanceolate, acuminate, upper smaller leaves that blooms in the early summer on an erect, short, terminal, densly several flowered inflorescence with linear-subulate, longer than the lower flowers, shorter than the upper flowers floral bracts and carrying small, sulphur yellow flowers

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Fl. Schutzgeb. Südsee, Nachtr.: 95 Schlechter 1905

Orchidaceae of German New Guinea: 161 Schlechter 1911 Drawing fide;

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