Ceratostylis breviceps

Ceratostylis breviceps

Ceratostylis breviceps Ridl., Trans. Linn. Soc. London, Bot. 9 (1916) 193

Type: Kloss s.n. (Camp 6c, 5500 ft.); (Camp 13, 10500 ft.) (syn BM)

Plant caespitose. Stems 15 cm long, 0.2 cm thick (when dried). Leaves rigid, coriaceous, linear-lanceolate, to base and apex narrowed, 9 by 0.5 cm. Floral head small, 0.4 cm long, with ovate, acute, pale, 0.1 cm long scales. Median sepal lanceolate, obtuse, silky hairy, 0.2 cm long. Lateral sepals rather similar, free; mentum cylindrical, at the apex dilated, globose, silky hairy, 0.3 cm long. Ovary silky hairy, cylindrical, as long as the mentum. Petals narrow, lanceolate, acute, almost as long as the sepals but much narrower. Lip oblong, at the base saccate, margins raised, at the apex carnose linguiform, obtuse, much shorter than the sepals. Column short, arms rather short, lanceolate, apices rounded, pale. (After Ridley, 1916).


Not recorded.

Epiphyte in upper montane forest. Altitude 1670-3200 m.

Malesia (New Guinea, endemic).

Papua (Indonesia). See map

distribution in New Guinea

Cool growing epiphyte.

Not known

  • Family Orchidaceae
  • Subfamily Epidendroideae
  • Tribe Podochileae
  • Subtribe Eriinae
  • Genus Ceratostylis
  • Section Ceratostylis
  • Species Ceratostylis breviceps
  • Royen, P. van, Alp. Fl. New Guinea 2 (1979) 478, fig. 166

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Ceratostylis breviceps

Ceratostylis breviceps Ridl., drawing Pieter van Royen, in P.Royen, Alp. Fl. New Guinea 2 (1979) 478, fig. 166, based on Kloss s.n.

Ceratostylis breviceps

Ceratostylis breviceps Ridl., herbarium sheet, holotype specimen (BM)