Species Information - Taeniophyllum flaccidum

Taeniophyllum flaccidum (J.J.Sm.) Kocyan & Schuit., Phytotaxa 161 (2014) 72

Type: Schlechter 18708 (holo B, lost); para

Synonyms:

• Microtatorchis flaccida Schltr., Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 1 (1913) 1006

Epiphytic, very small, stemless, up to 13 cm high. Roots filiform, glabrous. Leaves erect-patent, lanceolate-ligulate, acute, narrowed towards the base, 2.5-4.5 cm long, near the middle 0.4-0.7 cm wide. Inflorescence up to 15 cm long, flaccid, flexuose, laxly many-flowered; peduncle and rachis angular. Floral bracts ovate, acute, a little shorter than the ovary, at the base on either side with a short tooth. Flowers glabrous. Sepals and petals up to the middle connate into a tube, keeled outside, c. 0.65 cm long, free parts lanceolate, acuminate. Lateral sepals oblique. Lip lanceolate, about as long as the sepals, acute, above the base on either side subangular, margins somewhat incurved; spur subglobose, apex with four obtuse humps, 5-6 times shorter than the lip. Column very short, deeply bilobed. Anther cordate-cucullate, obtuse; pollinia obliquely oblongoid; stipe at the base slender, upwards broadly cuneate, about as long as the pollinia; viscidium oblong, small. Ovary triangular in cross-section, sometimes sparsely subdentate, 0.3 cm long. (After Schlechter, 1911-1914)

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