Gunnarella neocaledonica (Rendle) Senghas 1988 Photos by © Edouard Faria

Common Name The New Caledonia Gunnarella

Flower Size .22" [6 mm]

Found in New Caledonia in rain forests at elevations around 500 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with an erect stem carrying many, strap-shped, apically, unequally bilobed leaves that blooms in the fall and winter on to 19, axillary, 10 to 15 flowered inflorescecnce carrying very fragrant flowers.

Synonyms Chamaeanthus neocaledonicus (Rendle) N.Hallé 1977; *Sarcochilus neocaledonicus Rendle 1921;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Native Orchids of New Caledonia Societe Neo-Caledonienne D'Orchidophile 1995 as Chaemaenthus neocaledonicus photo fide;

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