Ceratostylis inflata Schltr. 1912 SECTION Ceratostylis
Side View of flower Photos by © Art Vogel
Type Drawing by © Schlechter and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name The Inflated Ceratostylis
Flower Size
Found in New Guinea at elevations around 450 meters as a small sized, hot growing epiphyte with terete, glabrous pseudobulbs carrying a single apical, erect, lanceolate, acuminate leaf that blooms in the fall on a short, few flowered inflorescence.
Schlechter states that the flowers are reddish on the outside and whitish on the inside with the lip being yellow towards the apex.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1912 drawing good
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