Phreatia cylindrostachya Schltr. 1913 SECTION Phreatia
Plant and Flowers Photos courtesy of © Dr. E.F. de Vogel, and André Schuiteman and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website
Common Name The Cylindrical Inflorescence Phreatia
Flower Size 1/4" [7mm]
Found in Solomon Islands and New Guinea in primary lower montane forests at elevations of 700 to 2900 meters as a small to just medium sized, cool growing epiphyte with subglobose, slightly laterally flattened, close set pseudobulbs carrying a single apical, erect, oblanceolate-ligulate, subobtuse, gradually narrowing below into the base leaf that blooms in the winter and spring on a densely many flowered, to 14" [to 35 cm] long,
Synonyms Phreatia cylindrostachya var. grandifolia Schltr. 1913
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1914/85; The Orchids of the Solomon Islands and Bougainville Lewis & Cribb 1991; Flora Malesia Orchids of New Guinea Vol V Shuiteman and de Vogel 2008
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