Tropidia similis Schltr. 1911

Type Drawing by © Schlechter and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Full shade Warm Fall

Common Name The Similar Tropidia [refers to its similarity to T curculigoides]

Flower Size

Found in New Guinea in montane forestrs at elevations around 900 meters as a large sized, warm growing terrestrial with a very short rhizome giving rise to a leafy stem carrying erect-patent, elliptic-lanceolate, subcaudate-attenuate, plicate, 5 nerved leaves that blooms in the fall on a subsessile to shortly pedunculate, few flowered inflorescence with ovate, apiculate, 2 sided, imbricate, shorter than the flower floral bracts.

"Similar to T curculigoides but distinguished by its tail-like, extended tip, the grassier flowers and the lip" Schlechter 1911

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 1: 93 Schlechter 1911

Orchidaceae of German New Guinea: 161 Schlechter 1911

Orchidaceae of German New Guinea: 165 Schlechter 1911Drawing fide;

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