Agrostophyllum superpositum Schltr. 1912 SECTION Oliganthe Schlechter 1911 Photo by © Art Vogel

Common Name The Superposed Agrostophyllum

Flower Size small

Found in New Guinea and the Solomon Islands on trees in mossy montane forests at elevations around 1300 to 1500 meters as a medium sized, warm growing epiphyte with slightly compressed stems carrying lax, erect-patent, linear, setaceous-bicuspidate apically, glabropus leaves that blooms in the fall on 2 to 5, single flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Agrostophyllum congestum Schltr. 1922; Agrostophyllum curvum Ridl. 1916;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1912 drawing fide; The Orchids of the Solomon Islands and Bougainville Lewis & Cribb 1991

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