Ceratostylis acutifolia Schltr. 1912 Drawing by © NHS Howcroft and The Papua New Guinea Orchid News Website

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Common Name or Meaning The Acute Leaved Ceratostylis

Flower Size

Found in New Guinea in montane forests at elevations around 2400 meters as a medium sized, cold growing epiphyte with erect, slender, terete, glabrous pseudobulbs carrying a single erect, linear, acute, glabrous, coriaceous, narrowly subpetiolate base below leaves that blooms in the late spring on a terminal, many flowered inflorescence with ovate, obtuse to apiculate bracts

Schlechter states that the flowers are red-brown with a lip that is yellow towards the apex.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *THe Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1912 drawing; Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 6 321 - 384 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1975; photo plant only ok

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