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

Part Shade Cold LATE Winter EARLYspring

Common Name The Large Phreatia [refers to the plant mass?]

Flower Size .05" [1.25 mm]

Found in New Guinea in montane forests and subalpine shrubberies at elevations of 700 to 3385 meters as a small sized, cold growing epiphyte with an erect stem densely envelopd by roots and above leaf bases carrying densely conferted, suberect, coriaceous, glabrous, linear-spathulate, unequally and obliquely bilobed apically, grooved above, prominent midrib beneath, subrevolute margined leaves that blooms in the late winter and early spring on a glabrous, erect, 3.4 to 6" [8.5 to 15 cm] long, 22 to 28 flowered inflorescence with the peduncle enveloped completely by tubular, glabrous, narrowly ovate bracts and with glabrous, narrowly ovate, boat-shaped, acute to acuminate floral bracts

Synonyms

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

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