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Octarrhena montana
Octarrhena montana (Ridl.) Schltr., Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 58 (1923) 148
Type: Kloss s.n. (Camp 11 to 12, 8300 to 11000 ft.); (Camp 13, 10500 ft.) (syn BM)
Synonyms:
- Phreatia montana Ridl., Trans. Linn. Soc. London, Bot. 9 (1916) 194
- Type: Kloss s.n. (Camp 11 to 12, 8300 to 11000 ft.); (Camp 13, 10500 ft.) (syn BM)
Stems slender, 8 cm long; roots thin, numerous. Leaves linear, obtuse, curved, carnose, flattened, minutely retuse, shortly mucronate, 3 by 1.5 cm, sheaths 0.5 cm long, ribbed, with crispate, scarious margins. Inflorescence erect, 11 cm long, slender, laxly flowered; peduncle 5 cm long, with a few scales. Floral bracts lanceolate, acuminate, 0.1 long, as long as the ovary. Sepals ovate, obtuse. Lip not clawed, obovate, obtuse, rounded, in the middle depressed, saccate, with raised margins. Column very small. Anther ovate, rounded.
(After Ridley, 1916)
Not recorded, except that Ridley describes the mid-vein of the lip as being red.
Epiphyte in upper montane forest; 759 to 3339 m.
Malesia (New Guinea, endemic).
Papua (Indonesia); Papua New Guinea. See map
Cool growing epiphyte.
February.
- Royen, P. van, Alp. Fl. New Guinea 2 (1979) 778, fig. 268, as Phreatia montana Ridl.
- Family Orchidaceae
- Subfamily Epidendroideae
- Tribe Podochileae
- Subtribe Thelasiinae
- Genus Octarrhena
- Species Octarrhena montana
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Octarrhena montana
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