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Orchid Species: Phreatia paleata
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Phreatia paleata is an orchid species identified by (Rchb.f.) Rchb.f. in 1876.
ORIGIN: Found in Sulawesi, Bismark Islands, New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Norfolk, Fiji, New Caledonia, Samoa and Vanuatu in rainforests on mossy tree trunks at elevations around 400 to 740 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Small to medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with closely spaced, oval to round pseudobulbs carrying 2, erect, oblong-lanceolate, acute to subacute, shortly petiolate base leaves of unequal length and blooms in the summer through fall on a basal, lateral, erect, 6.8 to 14 [17 to 35 cm] long, cylindrical tapering, densely many flowered inflorescence with cucculate, oblong, obtuse, floral bracts and has small fragrant flowers, .
FLOWER SIZE: 1/8 inch [5 mm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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