Glomera acutiflora (Schltr.) J.J.Sm. 1912 SECTION Uniflorae

Plant and Flowers Photos courtesy of André Schuiteman, Dr. E.F. de Vogel and Jaap Vermeulen and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website

Common Name or Meaning The Pointed Petal Glomera

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

Found in Papua New Guinea in montane forests at elevations of 700 to 1100 meters as a small to just medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with slightly compressed, branched, leafy stems carrying many, linear-lancelate, obliquely acute, basally cuneate leaves that blooms in the spring on a short, terminal, single flowered inflorescence arising through a elliptic, subapiculate, sparsely striate, clasping spathe and has hyaline, shorter than the ovary floral bracts. The epiteth acutiflora is a misnomer as there is nothing acute about the flower, most likely an error for sharp-leafed, acutifolia which it does have..

Synonyms *Glossorhyncha acutiflora Schltr. 1912

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Malesiana Orchids of New Guinea Vol III Shuiteman and de Vogel 2006

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