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Current Genus: Genus Phreatia
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Phreatia kaindiensis
Phreatia kaindiensis Ormerod, drawing by Paul Ormerod in Malesian Orchid J. 13 (2014) 61, fig. 13, based on the holotype, P.J.B. Woods, M. Coode, C. Ridsdale & M. Black 1620.
Type: P.J.B. Woods, M. Coode, C. Ridsdale & M. Black 1620 (holo A, isotype E).
Synonyms:
Epiphytic(?) herb. Roots terete, 0.03–0.1 cm thick. Pseudobulbs erect, narrowly ovoid, 1-foliate, approximate, 0.9–1.1 by 0.3–0.35 cm; pseudobulb sheaths 2–3, when dry becoming thin and papery, and later decaying into fibrous remnants, 1.1–1.3 cm long. Leaves erect, narrowly ligulate to ligulate-oblanceolate, 3.7–5.6 by 0.5–0.65 cm (including the subpetiolate base of 0.3–0.4 cm), thinly coriaceous; apex obtusely bilobed. Inflorescence basal, 12 cm long; peduncle laxly 7-sheathed, 8 cm long; sheaths 0.7–1.1 cm long; rachis densely many-flowered, 4 cm long; floral bracts lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, 0.3–0.5 cm long, with acute apex. Pedicel and ovary clavate, 0.23–0.3 cm long. Median sepal erect, oblong-lanceolate, 0.26 by 0.13 cm; apex obtuse. Lateral sepals obliquely ovate, 0.295 by 0.2 cm (0.25 cm along midnerve); apex subacute. Petals obliquely ovate-lanceolate, 0.2 by 0.11 cm; apex subacute. Lip broadly arrowhead-shaped, 0.2 by 0.2 cm (including the claw); claw cuneate when spread, 0.08 by 0.1cm, with 2 oblong-elliptic glands; apex subacute-obtuse; 3-nerved. Column short and wide, 0.1 cm long; column foot 0.1 cm long.
Flowers white, anther cream-colour.
Not recorded. Altitude 3200 m.
Malesia (New Guinea), endemic.
Papua New Guinea, Morobe Prov. See map
Cool growing ?epiphyte.
June.
- Family Orchidaceae
- Subfamily Epidendroideae
- Tribe Podochileae
- Subtribe Thelasiinae
- Genus Phreatia
- Section Phreatia
- Species Phreatia kaindiensis
Phreatia kaindiensis is similar to P. leptophylla but differs in the approximate (not 0.7–1.2 cm apart), 1-foliate pseudobulbs(versus 2-foliate), longer leaves (3.7–5.6 versus 1.5–3 cm), a densely flowered inflorescence (versus laxly flowered), and almost twice as large flowers (sepals 2.60–2.95 versus 1.5 mm long).
Phreatia kaindiensis is also similar to the 1-foliate P. bulbophylloides Schltr. but that has the pseudobulbs spaced (0.5–1 cm apart), a laxly flowered inflorescence (versus densely flowered), and much smaller flowers (sepals 0.125 cm long).
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Phreatia kaindiensis
Phreatia kaindiensis Ormerod, drawing by Paul Ormerod in Malesian Orchid J. 13 (2014) 61, fig. 13, based on the holotype, P.J.B. Woods, M. Coode, C. Ridsdale & M. Black 1620.