Glomera sepalosiphon Schuit. & de Vogel 2003 SECTION Uniflorae

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

Part shade Cool Spring

Common Name The Green Glomera

Flower Size

Found in New Guinea at elevations around 1100 meters as a medium sized, cool growing epiphyte with a short rhizome giving rise to erect, branching, somewhat compressed, terete, leafy stems carrying patent, thickly coriaceous, oblong to oblong-elliptic, minutely and obliquely bilobed apically leaves that blooms in the spring on a terminal, single flowered inflorescence.

Synonyms Glossorhyncha sepalosiphon Ormerod 2002; *Sepalosiphon papuanum Schltr. 1912

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1912 as Sepalosiphon papuanum drawing fide; Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 6 321 - 384 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1975 as Sepalosiphon papuanum drawing fide

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