Phreatia cryptostigma Schltr. 1913 Specimen at and The The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria

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Common Name The Hidden Stigma Phreatia

Flower Size .1" [2.5 mm]

Found in New Guinea in montane forests at elevations of 900 to 3000 meters as a small sized, warm to cold growing epiphyte with globose pseudobulbs carrying 2, apical, ligulate, acute, gradually narrowing below into the base leaves that blooms in the winter on a curved, distichous, sublaxly many flowered inflorescence witha few bracts and broadly elliptic, somewhat longer than the ovary floral bracts.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1913; The Orchids of the High Mountains of New Guinea Van Royen 1979 drawing ok;

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