Phreatia plagiopetala Schltr. 1913 SECTION Saccophreatia TYPE Drawing by Schlechter and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

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Common Name The Slanting Petal Phreatia

Flower Size

Found in New Guinea on trees in forests at elevations around 500 meters as a small to just medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with close set, ovoid-cylindrical pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, erect, elliptic-ligulate, unequally and obtusely bilobed apically, narrowing below into the base leaf that blooms in the late fall and early winter on an erect, peduncle several bracted, rachis cylindric, to 8" [to 20 cm] long overall, somewhat densely many flowered inflorescence with oval, acuminate, equal to the flowers floral bracts.

Schlechter states that the flowers are white.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1913 drawing fide

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