Trichoglottis litoralis Schltr. 1905

Inflorescence

Plant and Flowers Photos courtesey of André Schuiteman, Dr. E.F. de Vogel and Jaap Vermeulen and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website

Part Sun HotWarm LATEWinter SpringTHROUGH EARLY Fall

Common Name or Meaning The Coastal Trichoglottis

Flower Size .55" [1.4 cm]

Found only in New Guinea and the Bismark Islands in lowland forests and on coastal trees at elevations of 0 to 800 meters as a medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphtye with an elongate, rather thick, flexuous stem enveloped completely by tightly adpressed leaf-bearing sheaths and carrying erect-patent, lanceolate-ligulate, obtuse and unequally bilobed apically, glabrous, coriaceous leaves that blooms in the late winter, spring through early fall on a very short to .6" [1.5 cm] long, 2 to 3 flowered inflorescence with ovate, acuminate, much shorter than the ovary bracts.

The photo here matches almost exactly the drawing by Schlechter 1913 for T papuana and not Schlechter's drawing for T litoralis. I await further info from Schuitteman.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1985; Lowland Orchids of Papua New Guinea O'Byrne 1994; Flora Malesia Orchids of New Guinea Vol V 2008

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