Malleola wariana Schltr. 1913 SECTION Malleola Photo courtesy of Wolfgang H. Bandisch. Photo by Peter O'Byrne Copyright © 1998, 1999 All rights reserved. And his Papua & New Guinea Orchid Species site

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Common Name or Meaning The Waria Malleola [Mountain range in New Guinea]

Flower Size 3/8" [8 to 9 mm]

Found in Papua and New Guinea as a small sized, hot growing, monopodial epiphyte at elevations of 100 to 300 meters in deep shade on a small branch of small trees in open seasonal rainforests with a densely leafed stem carrying, linear, obliquely obtuse apically leaves that blooms in the late winter and early spring on a lateral, decurved to descending, 1 3/8" to 2" [4 to 5 cm] long, several [12] flowered inflorescence with 3 sheathing bracts from which arise wide open, sweetly fragrant, longlasting flowers.

References W3 Tropicos [http://mobot.mobot.org/W3T/Search/vast.html] , Kew Monocot list [ http://www.kew.org/wcsp/home.do ], IPNI [ http://www.us.ipni.org/ipni/plantsearch?request_type=search&output_format=query&ret_defaults=on Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1985; Flora Malesiana Orchids of New Guinea Vol IV Shuiteman and de Vogel 2006