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Glossorhyncha myrtillus is an orchid species identified by (Schltr.) Ormerod in 2002. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Glomera myrtillus.
ORIGIN: Found in New Guinea in montane forests at elevations of 400 to 1000 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Miniature to small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with a slender, thinly terete, very small, much branched, leafy stem entirely covered by leaf sheaths and carrying oblong to elliptic-oblong, oblique, minutely apiculate, basally narrowing to the subpetiolate, glabrous base leaves that blooms in the spring and fall on a terminal, solitary, erect inflorescence arising through a closely adpressed to and half way up the ovary, elliptic, apiculate, sparsely verruculose spathe and has a very small floral bract and carries a glabrous flower.
FLOWER SIZE: 1/2 inch [1.2 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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