Dryadorchis huliorum (Schuit.) Christenson & Schuit, 1995

Flower Closeup Photo courtesy of Dr. E.F. de Vogel, André Schuiteman and Jaap Vermeulen and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website

Common Name or Meaning

Flower Size .8" [2 cm]

Found in Papua New Guinea in montane mist forests at elevations of 1300 to 1700 meters as a miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with an unbranched stem carrying3 to 4, slightly oblique-elliptic, slightly falcate, coriaceous, twisted 90 degrees at the base, all in one plane, margins with minutely crenualate-denticulatae, unequally bilobed, keeled below, reticulate veining on leaves that blooms on an axillary from below the lowest leaf, horizontal, racemose, 7 flowered, 2.6" [6.5 cm] long, elongating inflorescence with 2 distant tubular bracts and a cupular, obtuse floral bract.

Synonyms *Sarcochilus huliorum Schuit. 1994

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 42 - 43 pg 2626 - 2762 Brieger 2001; Flora Malesiana Orchids of New Guinea Vol III Shuiteman and de Vogel 2006

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