Renanthera edefeldtii F. Muell. & Kraenzl. ex Kraenzl. 1894 Photo courtesy of Wolfgang H. Bandisch. Photo By Peter O'Byrne Copyright © 1998, 1999 All rights reserved. And his Papua & New Guinea Orchid Species site

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Common Name Edefeldt's Renanthera

Common Name Edefeldt's Renanthera

Flower Size 3/4" [20 mm]

This monopodial, showy epiphytic or lithophytic orchid from Irian Jaya to PNG and the Solomon Islands from sealevel to 600 meters in exposed sunny locations high in trees or on cliffs or rock faces where it blooms in the summer and fall on an axillary, lateral, 12 to 22" [30 to 55 cm] long, simple or branched, racemose, few to several flowered inflorescence that has small bracts and successively opening, showy flowers.

References W3 Tropicos [http://mobot.mobot.org/W3T/Search/vast.html] , Kew Monocot list [ http://www.kew.org/wcsp/home.do ], IPNI [ http://www.us.ipni.org/ipni/plantsearch?request_type=search&output_format=query&ret_defaults=on Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1985

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