Ceratostylis triloba Schltr. 1912 SECTION Ceratostylis Photo by © Peter O'Byrne and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Type Drawing

Type Drawing by © Schlechter and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Full shade Cool LATE Spring

Common Name or Meaning The Three Lobed Ceratostylis

Flower Size

Found in New Guinea on tree in montane forests at elevations around 1400 meters as a medium sized, cool growing epiphyte with erect, graceful, terete, glabrous stems carrying a single, apical, erect-patent, linear-ligulate, acute, narrowing below into the shortly petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late spring on a terminal, capitate, several flowered inflorescence

Synonyms

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

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