Peristylus listeroides (Schltr.) P.F.Hunt 1971 Type Drawing by © Schlechter and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Part shade Cool LATE Fall EARLY Winter

Common Name The Listera-Like Peristylus [An Orchid Genus]

Flower Size

Found in New Guinea at elevations around 1200 meters as a large sized, cool growing terrestrial with an erect, strict to substrict, terete, glabrous stem carrying 2 near the middle of the stem, patent, broadly ovate to ovate-lanceolate, acuminate leaves that blooms in the late fall and early winter on an elongate, secund, to 10" [25 cm] long, laxly many flowered inflorescence with erect, lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous bracts.

Synonyms *Habenaria listeroides Schltr. 1911

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1912 as Habenaria listeroides Drawing fide;

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