Species Information - Octarrhena vitellina

Octarrhena vitellina (Ridl.) Schltr., Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 58 (1923) 148

Type: Kloss s.n. (Camp 3, 2500 ft.); (Camp 6c, 5500 ft.) (syn BM)

Synonyms:

• Phreatia vitellina Ridl., Trans. Linn. Soc. London, Bot. 9 (1916) 194
  - Type: Kloss s.n. (Camp 3, 2500 ft.); (Camp 6c, 5500 ft.) (syn BM)

Stems 5-20 cm long, covered with sheathing cataphylls. Leaves carnose, linear, obtuse, 3 by 0.1 cm, curved; sheaths somewhat compressed, 0.5-1 cm long; leaf-scar elliptic. Inflorescences axillary, 2-2.5 cm long, pedunculate at the base, with the flowers turned to all sides; peduncle scales lanceolate, acuminate, cuspidate in apical 0.1 cm. Floral bracts lanceolate, acuminate, almost as long as the pedicel with ovary. Median sepal lanceolate, acute, narrow. Lateral sepals much wider, ovate. Petals lanceolate, obtuse, much narrower than the median sepal. Lip not clawed, narrow, linear, obtuse, at the apex curved upwards, with raised margins. Column with distinct truncate stelidia. Ovary with pedicel 0.5 cm long.
(After Ridley, 1916)

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