Species Information - Crepidium schumannianum

Crepidium schumannianum (Schltr.) Szlach., Fragm. Florist. Geobot. Suppl. 3 (1995) 131

Type: Schlechter 14058 (holotype BO, lost).

Synonyms:

• Microstylis schumanniana Schltr. in K.Schum. & Lauterb., Nachtr. Fl. Deutsch. Schutzgeb. Südsee (1905) 101
• Malaxis schumanniana (Schltr.) P.F.Hunt, Kew Bull. 24 (1970) 84
• Pseudoliparis schumanniana (Schltr.) Szlach. & Marg., Adansonia 21 (1999) 277

Plant c. 10 cm tall, erect, sometimes few in a cluster. Rhizome very short. Leafy stem completely covered by leaf petioles and sheaths, 1.1—2 by 0.1—0.26 cm. Leaves 3—5; petiole 0.5—1.1 by 0.12—0.4 cm wide when spread; leaf sheath 0.6—1.3 mm long, 0,1—0.3 cm; leaf blade slightly oblique, ovate, attenuate, 1.2—3.2 by 0.5—1.6 cm; base slightly obcordate; apex acuminate; margins partly undulate; 3-nerved. : Inflorescence rather dense to dense, slender, 10—25-flowered. 8—9.5 cm long; peduncle c. 0.55 cm long; raceme 0.25—0.4 cm long. Sterile bract usually 1, lanceolate, attenuate, 0.35—0.42 by 0.01—0.013 cm; apex acuminate; 1-nerved, often reflexed. Floral bracts reflexed, lanceolate, 0.18—0.36 by 0.05—0.1 cm; apex acuminate; 1-nerved. Flowers 0.57—0.6 by 0.45—0.5 cm wide when spread,. Dorsal ovate to oblong-ovate, sepal 0.3—0.32 by 0.1—0.12 cm; apex obtuse; usually 1- nerved. Lateral sepals oblique ovate, 0.25—0.27 by 0.16—0.18 cm; base slightly obcordate; apex obtuse to subacute; 3-nerved, median nerve more distinct. Petals usually strongly bent backwards, linear, 0.24—0.26 by 0.04—0.05 cm; apex subacute. Lip obovate sagittate in outline,.32—0.37 by 0.2—0.22 cm wide when spread; lamina reniform, 0.2—0.21 cm long; apex distinctly apiculate, lamellae simple, parallel, 0.08—0.1 by 0.01—0.06cm high, c. 0.01 cm thick, separated by a narrow depression, at the base connected in a callus c. 0.08 cm high, towards the top of the lamina distinctly convergent; auricles elongate, falcate, triangular, 0.14—0.l8 by 0.08—0.1 cm, the apices obtuse to subacute and nearly touching. Gynostemium erect, c. 0.1—0.13 by 0.05—0.09 cm, 0.005—0.012 by 0.02—0.03 cm wide base, in upper half with a relatively short, erect, cone-like appendage with acute tip; staminodes oblong, 0.07—0.09 by 0.04—0.05 cm, obliquely truncate at apices, folded back from anther; anther c. 0.04 by 0.03 cm wide.
(after Margonska, 2005)

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