Hymenorchis saccata Schltr.1913

Plant and Flowers

Photos by © Linda and Mikael Karlbom

Common Name The Belly Hymenorchis

Flower Size 1/2" [1.25 cm]

Found in New Guinea in mist forests at elevations around 1100 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm to cool growing, monopodial epiphyte with a short erect stem enveloped by leaf bearing sheaths and carrying patent-oblong, apiculate, fleshy, minutely serrate margined leaves that blooms in the summer on a short, few flowered inflorescence

This photo is absolutely not correct, I don't think the genus is correct either, but as to what it is remains elusive.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orchidaceae Of German New Guinea Schlechter 1913 drawing not!

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