Species Information - Appendicula flaccida

Appendicula flaccida (Schltr.) Schltr., Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 1 (1912) 351

Type:

Synonyms:

• Podochilus flaccidus Schltr. in K.Schum. & Lauterb., Nachtr. Fl. Deutsch. Schutzgeb. Südsee (1905) 117
  - Type: Schlechter 14342 (holo B, lost; iso K)
• Appendicula neohibernica Schltr., Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 1 (1912) 352
  - Type: Schlechter 14706 (holo B, lost)

Basionym: Podochilus flaccidus

Roots filiform, minutely villose. Stems patent, slender, terete, 25-40 cm long, many-leaved. Leaves erect-patent, elliptic, 1.3-2.2 by 0.4-0.7 cm, thin-textured, apex narrowly obtuse, with a bristle-like mucro. Inflorescence terminal, racemose, patent, peduncle short, laxely several-flowered. Floral bracts recurved, oblong, much shorter than the ovary, apex acuminate. Flowers c. 0.6 cm long. Dorsal sepal ovate, 0.3 cm long, concave, apex acute. Lateral sepals obliquely ovate, 0.3 cm long, apex acute; mentum conical, obtuse. Petals obliquely oblong, 0.25 cm long, slight broader than the dorsal sepal, apex obtuse. Lip in outline cuneate, 0.4 by 0.25 cm, above the base with a cuneate callus of which the margins are decurrent on the apical half of the blade, apex abruptly short-acuminate. Column short, rostellum erect, narrowly lanceolate-triangular, at apex shortly emarginate; column-foot long. Anther obovate, apex acuminate. Pollinia 8, attached to a single, minute viscidium without caudicles. Fruit subcylindric, shortly pedicellate, 1 by 0.2 cm. (After Schlechter, 1905, as Podochilus flaccidus Schltr.).

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