Tropidia disticha Schltr. 1905
Photo by Wolfgang Bandisch © and the Orchids of New Guinea Website
Photo by © Reza Saputra
TYPE Drawing by © Schlechter
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Common Name The Distichous Tropidia [refers to the distichous bracted inflorescence]
Flower Size .26" [.65 cm]
Found in New Guinea, Bismark Archipelago and the Solomon Islands in deep shade in primary forests at elevations of 30 to 1200 meters as a small to medium sized, hot to cool growing terrestrial with plicate, lanceolate, acute, dark green leaves that blooms in the spring, summer and fall on 1 to 3, terminal, 1.2 to 7.2" [3 to 18 cm] long, inflorescence with distichous, triangular, acute bracts
"Whether T. triloba J.J. Sm. should really be separated from it specifically, I am rather doubtful; it will be necessary to compare living material. In other respects the species is related closely to T. effusa." Schlechter 1911
Locally this orchid is mixed with lye and a dye is made to stain cloth.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Fl. Schutzgeb. Südsee, Nachtr.: 94 Schlechter 1905
Orchidaceae of German New Guinea: 160 Schlechter 1911
Orchidaceae of German New Guinea: 164 Schlechter 1911 drawing ?;
Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 5 257- 320 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1974;
The Orchids of the Solomon Islands and Bougainville Lewis & Cribb 1991 drawing fide;
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