Mediocalcar uniflorum Schltr.1911 SECTION Eu-Mediocalcar

Bisected Flower Photos by Dr Ed de Vogel © and the Orchids of New Guinea Website

Common Name or Meaning The Single Flowered Mediocalcar

Flower Size

Found in New Guinea on trees in montane forests at elevations of 800 to 2300 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with a terete, decumbent rhixome giving rise to suberect, basally slightly dilated cylindrical pseudobulbscarrying a single, apical, erect, ligulate, shortly and unequally bilobed apically leaf that blooms in the spring on a thin, .4 to .8" [1 to 2 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1911 drawing fide; Die Orchideen #6 21-24 tafel 7 Rudolph Schlechter 1971 drawing fide

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