Species Information - Octarrhena spathulata

Octarrhena spathulata (Schltr.) Schuit., Blumea 48 (2003) 512

Type: Ledermann 12839 (holo B, lost)

Synonyms:

• Chitonanthera spathulata Schltr., Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 58 (1923) 147
  - Type: Ledermann 12839 (holo B, lost)

Epiphytic, densely tufted or bushy, many-stemmed, 20-30 cm long. Rhizome short. Stems erect or overhanging, unbranched, densely leafy. Leaves equitant falcate-ligulate, 1.1-1.5 by 0.25-0.4 cm, acute or subacute, below the middle articulate, dorsally long decurrent on the stem. Inflorescences erect-patent, few-flowered, about half as long as the leaves, usually less than 0.6 cm long; peduncle short. Floral bracts deltoid, shorter than the ovary. Flowers minute, c. 0.4 cm across. Sepals patent, oblong or elliptic, 0.2 cm long, subobtuse, glabrous. Lateral sepals oblique. Petals extremely small, obliquely oblong, obtuse, minutely papillose. Lip a little shorter than the sepals, 0.18 cm long, obovate-spathulate, broadly obtuse, 3-nerved, minutely papillose. Column rather thick, terete, almost three times longer than the petals, about 0.1 cm long, minutely papillose; clinandrium lobes dorsally abruptly bent backwards, lanceolate-triangular, subobtuse; rostellum erect, triangular, very small. Ovary subsessile, short, 0.15 cm long, cylindrical, glabrous.
(After Schlechter, 1922)

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