Glomera subpetiolata Schltr. 1912 Photo by © Art Vogel

Common Name The Subpetiolate Glomera

Flower Size

Found in New Guinea at elevations around 1000 meters as a medium sized, warm growing epiphyte with a short rhizome giving rise to a flattened, glabrous, sometimes branching stem carrying many, erect-patent, ligulate, obtuse and unequally bilobed apically, subpetiolate and contracted below into the base leaves that blooms in the fall on a short, few flowered inflorescence.

I have no way of verifying this determination so please use with caution

Synonyms *Glossorhyncha subpetiolata Schltr. 1912

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1912 drawing ?;

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