Ceratostylis flavescens Schltr. 1912 SECTION Ceratostylis Type Drawing by © Schlechter and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name The Yellow Ceratostylis

Flower Size

Found in New Guinea at elevations around 2000 meters as a small sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with a short rhizome giving rise to thin, filiform pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, erect, glabrous, thick, subulate-filiform, acute leaf that blooms in the spring on an apical, fasciculate, few flowered inflorescence.

Schlechter states that the flowers are sulphur yellow with a golden yellow lip.

Synonyms

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

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