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Phreatia curvata
Phreatia curvata (Gilli) Ormerod, Checklist of Papuasian Orchids (2017) 375.
Type: Gilli 490 (holo W)
Synonyms:
- Dendrochilum curvatum Gilli, Ann. Naturhist. Mus. Wien 84/B (1983) 31, fig. 20
Plant curved, to 30 cm long, Rhizome branched. Pseudobulbs narrowly cylindrical, each covered by a sheath. Leaf blade flat, linear or linear-lanceolate, 3-5.5 by 1.3 cm; margins inrolled; apex blunt. Inflorescence hysteranth, nodding, many-flowered, thin, to 10 cm long, Bracts persistent, narrow lanceolate, 0.1-0.2 cm long; apex acute. Sepals ovate-lanceolate, c. 1 by 0.1 cm, the median one with acute apex, the lateral ones with a rather abruptly acuminate apex. Petals about as long as the sepals, lanceolate. Lip ovate, abruptly acuminate. Pedicel short, together with the ovary 0.2 cm long, papillose.
(After Gilli 1983, as Dendrochilum curvatum)
Flowers white;
Epiphyte in ontane forest. . Altitude 2950 m.
Malesia (New Guinea, endemic).
Papua New Guinea (Enga Prov.). 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 Phreatia
- Species Phreatia curvata
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Phreatia curvata
Phreatia curvata (Gilli) Ormerod, as Dendrochilum curvatum Gilli, drawing A. Gilli in Ann. Naturhist. Mus. Wien 84/B (1983) 31, fig. 20, based on Gilli 490 (holotype W)