Zeuxine fritzii Schltr. 1914

Photo by © Agnes Rinehart

LATER

Common Name Fritz's Zeuxine [Governor of Saipan 1900's]

Flower Size

Found in the Caroline and Marianas islands in shady forests as a miniature to medium sized [including the inflorescence] hot growing terresrial with an ascendent leafy stem carrying dark green,somewhat undulate margines, oblong-elliptic, acute, withering as it comes into bloom, basally clasping leaves that blooms in the later spring on a terminal, erect, elongate, 6 to 20" [15 to 50 cm] long, white pubescent, successively few, densely many flowered inflorescence .

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Ferns and Orchids of the Mariana Islands Raulerson & Rinehart 1992 photos fide;

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