Species Information - Calanthe goodenoughiana

Calanthe goodenoughiana Ormerod & P.J.Cribb, Malesian Orchid Journal 8 (2011)48, fig. 6.

Type: Brass 25041 (holo AMES).

Synonyms:

Terrestrial herb up to 80 cm tall. Leaves suberect, narrowly elliptic-lanceolate, 3, 45—60 by 5.5—6 cm; apex acuminate; petiole up to 28 cm long, slender. Inflorescence up to 80 cm tall, densely many-flowered; peduncle 60—75 cm long, glabrous, bearing two small, sheathing, acuminate, spreading-suberect scale leaves; floral bracts spreading to upcurved, narrowly lanceolate, 1—2.3 by 0.1—0.2 cm, with acuminate apex, pubescent. Flowers resupinate, sepals and petals strongly reflexed, pubescent on outer surface of sepals. Pedicel-with ovary 1—1.1 cm long, pubescent. Median sepal cucullate, narrowly elliptic, 1.15 by 0.35 cm; apex acuminate. Lateral sepals slightly obliquely obovate-elliptic 1.2 by 0.35 cm; apex acuminate. Petals narrowly linear-oblanceolate, 1 by 0.1 cm; apex acute; one-nerved. Lip spreading to slightly deflexed, 3-lobed, 0.6 by 0.85 cm; lateral lobes spreading, tapering-oblong, 0.25 by 0.15—0.2 cm, rounded at apex; midlobe broadly obtriangular 0.3 by 0.4 cm; apex apiculate; callus small, consisting of 3 tapering lines of warts; spur cylindric, curving above the ovary, upcurved, 0.6—0.7 cm long. Column dilated from a slender base, 0.8—0.9 cm long.
(after Cribb, Ormerod & Dudley 2011)

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