Prev Taxon: Genus Corymborkis
Current Genus: Genus Crepidium
Next Taxon: Genus Crepidium section Commelinoides
Crepidium pedicellare
Crepidium pedicellare (Rchb.f.) Szlach. & Marg., Adansonia 20 (1998) 342 ('pedicellaris')
Type:
Synonyms:
- Microstylis pedicellaris Rchb.f., Bot. Centralbl. 28 (1886) 345
- Type: Beccari s.n. (holo FI) - Malaxis pedicellaris (Rchb.f.) P.F.Hunt, Kew Bull. 24 (1970) 83
Stem ascending, elongated, 8- to 9-leaved. Leaves petiolate; blade oblong, to c. 5 by 1.9 cm, acute; petiole to 1.9 cm long. Inflorescence elongated, carrying flowers up to the base. Floral bracts linear-lanceolate, deflexed, surpassing the pedicellate ovary and the sepals by one sixth or one seventh. Flowers minute. Sepals oblong-ligulate, obtuse. Petals falcate, obtuse. Lip sagittate, on either side near the apex with three large curved large teeth, apical lobe bidentate with an apiculum between the teeth. (After Reichenbach, 1886, as Microstylis pedicellaris Rchb.f.)
Lip when dried bright purple.
Not recorded.
Malesia (New Guinea, endemic).
Papua (Indonesia), exact locality not recorded.
Requirements unknown.
Not recorded.
- Family Orchidaceae
- Subfamily Epidendroideae
- Tribe Malaxideae
- Genus Crepidium
- Section Crepidium
- Species Crepidium pedicellare
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Crepidium pedicellare
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