Gunnarella robertsii [Schlechter] Senghas 1988 Photo courtesy of Wolfgang H. Bandisch. Photo By Neville Howcroft Copyright © 1998, 1999 All rights reserved. And his Papua & New Guinea Orchid Species site

Common Name Roberts' Gunnarella

Flower Size 1/4" [5 mm]

A miniature, hot growing, momopodial epiphyte found in Papua and New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, New Caledonia and Vanuatu in riverine rainforests at elevations of sealevel to 200 meters in mangrove swamps, coastal forests, rainforests, and savannahs on twigs of trees in the uppermost part of the canopy in bright light with 4 to 8, erect, falcate-linear, oblique to subacute, bilobed apically leaves that blooms at any time of the year on a basal, 2 to 6" [5 to 15 cm] long, pendulous, fractiflex, many [25] flowered, racemose inflorescence with sporadic or simultaneously opening, delicate, fragrant flowers that last for only one day.

Synonyms Chamaeanthus laxus Schltr. 1913; Chamaeanthus robertsii (Schltr.) Schltr. 1913; Gunnarella laxus (Schltr.) Senghas 1988; *Sarcochilus robertsii Schltr. 1907

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1914/1985 as Chamaeanthus laxus Schltr. 1913; Orchids of Vanuatu Lewis & Cribb 1989; Flora Malesiana Orchids of New Guinea Vol III Shuiteman and de Vogel 2005