!Saccoglossum papuanum Schltr. 1912

Plant 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 The Papua Saccoglossum

Flower Size

Found in Papua and New Guinea in mist forests at elevations of 1000 to 1300 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with 3/4" to 1 1/4" [2 to 3 cm] betweeen each oblong, compressed pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, erect, ovate-elliptic, subacute, glabrous leaf and blooms in the winter and summer on a basal, short, successively few flowered, fasciculate inflorescence arising on a mature pseudobulb and carrying a small, ovate floral bract and a single flower at a time.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *The Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1912 drawing fide;

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