Agrostophyllum parviflorum J.J.Sm. 1908 SECTION Agrostophyllum
Plant Photos courtesy of Dr. E.F. de Vogel, André Schuiteman, and Jaap Vermeulen and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website. and Flora Malesiana Vol III
Common Name The Small Flowered Agrostophyllum
Flower Size .1" [3 mm]
Found in the Moluccas and New Guinea in shady montane forests at elevations of sealevel to 1000 meters as a medium sized, hot growing epiphyte with close set, laterally compressed, many leafed stems carrying patent, basally half twisteed, linear-lanceolate, obtuse, shortly bilobulate, mucronate, basally slightly narrowed and conduplicate, grooved along the midrib, keeeled below, coriaceosu leaves that blooms in the spring and summer on a terminal, nodding, densely capitate, semiglobose inflorescence with oblong, strongly concave, obtuse, membraneous floral bracts.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lindleyana Vol 17 No 1 2002; Flora Malesiana Orchids of New Guinea Vol III Shuiteman and de Vogel 2005
