Species Information - Crepidium yamapense

Crepidium yamapense (Marg., Szlach. & Rutk.) Marg., Ann. Bot. Fenn. 39 (2002) 65

Type:

Synonyms:

• Fingardia yamapensis Marg., Szlach. & Rutk., Fragm. Florist. Geobot. 43 (1998) 5, fig. 2
  - Type: NGF (Streimann) 47612 (PNG, Morobe Distr., Wau subdistr., New Yamap) (holo L; iso BRI)

Basionym: Fingardia yamapensis

Terrestrial. Pseudobulbs 4.2-6.9 cm long, 0.2-0.3 cm diam., fusiform, ascending. Leaves 4; petiole 1-2 cm channelled, widening and sheathing towards the base; blade 6.2-9 by 2.4-2.9 cm, broadly lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, more or less oblique, acuminate. Inflorescence 19 cm long, erect; rachis 7.5 cm long, densely many-flowered. Flowers small, not-resupinate. Floral bracts to 1 cm, narrowly triangular to linear-lanceolate, apiculate. Median sepal 0.5-0.52 by 0.15 cm, oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, 3-nerved. Lateral sepals 0.48-0.49 by 0.2 0.22 cm, obliquely oblong-elliptic, obtuse, 3-nerved. Petals 0.48 by 0.09 cm, linear-oblanceolate, falcate, obtuse, 1-nerved. Lip 0.5 cm long and wide, more or less lunate in outline, with a prominent finger-like callus in the basal part of a conspicuous cavity surrounded by a rim; mid-lobe up to 0.1 cm, triangular, bifid at the apex; lateral lobes obliquely triangular-falcate, subacute, with 6 obscure teeth on either side of the mid-lobe. Column 0.1 cm long. Pedicel and ovary 0.5-0.6 cm long, slender. (After Szlachetko et al., 1998)

White flowers are unusual in this alliance.

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