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Phreatia curvata (Gilli) Ormerod, Checklist of Papuasian Orchids (2017) 375.
Type: Gilli 490 (holo W)
Synonyms:
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
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