Species Information - Phreatia modesta

Phreatia modesta Ridl., Trans. Linn. Soc. London, Bot. 9 (1916) 195

Type: Kloss s.n. (Camp 3, 2500 ft.) (holo BM)

Synonyms:

Stem short, 0.5 cm long, 3-leaved. Leaves linear, obtuse, coriaceous, 3-5 by 0.3 cm. Inflorescence shorter than the leaves, slender, at the base with 3 distant, ovate or broadly lanceolate, cuspidate, inrolled peduncle scales. Flowers turned to all sides, minute, distant. Floral bracts lanceolate, long acuminate, the lower ones surpassing the flowers, the upper ones as long as the pedicellate ovary. Median sepal oblong, obtuse. Lateral sepals broader, ovate. Petals shorter and narrower, ovate, obtuse. Lip clawed; claw linear, channelled saccate; blade fan-shaped. Pedicel with ovary 0.1 cm long.
(After Ridley, 1916)

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