Tropidia reichenbachiana Kraenzl. 1886

Collection Sheet by © Dr Meyer and Kew's Plants of the World Online Website

Full shade Spring

Common Name Reichenbach's Tropidia [German Botanist 1800's]

Flower Size

Found in the Lesser Sunda Islands, Maluku and New Guinea in forest margins as a medium sized terrestrial with an erect stem carrying 5 to 6, lanceolate, acuminate, membraneous, 5 nerved leaves that blooms in the spring on a terminal, .8" [2 cm] long, cylindrical to capitate, many flowered inflorescence

Closest to T septemnervis but T reichenbachiana differs in the lip and rhombic gynostemium and T effusa but T reichenbachiana differs in the shorter than the lip gynostemium.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 7: 442 Kraenzlin 1886

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