''Pterostylis papuana'' is a plant in the orchid family Orchidaceae and is endemic to New Guinea and the Maluku and Solomon Islands. It typically grows to a height of about , the leaves at the base oblong to egg-shaped, long and wide on a petiole long. Each plant has a single pale green and white flower tinged with reddish-brown, the dorsal sepal oblong and about long, the lateral sepals and petals long. The labellum is narrowly lance-shaped and long. This orchid was first formally described in 1899 by

Robert Allen Rolfe Robert Allen Rolfe (1855, Wilford, Nottinghamshire – 1921, Richmond, Surrey) was an English botanist specialising in the study of orchids. For a time he worked in the gardens at Welbeck Abbey. He entered Kew in 1879 and became second assistant. ...

in the ''

Kew Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information The ''Kew Bulletin'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed scientific journal on plant and fungal taxonomy and conservation published by Springer Science+Business Media on behalf of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Articles on palynology, cytology, anatomy, ...

'' from specimens collected on Mount Scratchley at an altitude of .

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papuana Orchids of New Guinea Orchids of Indonesia Orchids of the Solomon Islands Plants described in 1899 Taxa named by Robert Allen Rolfe {{Orchidoideae-stub