Species Information - Styloglossum lancilabre

Styloglossum lancilabre (Ormerod & P.J.Cribb ) T.Yukawa & P.J.Cribb, Bull. Natl. Mus. Nat. Sci., Tokyo, B. 40 (2014) 149.

Type: Brass 10260 (holo L; iso AMES).

Synonyms:

• Calanthe lancilabris Ormerod & P.J.Cribb, Malesian Orchid Journal 8 (2011) 51, fig. 8.

Creeping terrestrial herb up to 18 cm tall. Rhizome elongate, covered in papery sheaths, with a root at each node. Erect stem 3—5 cm long, leafy. Leaves distichous, suberect, linear-lanceolate, up to 6, 5—16 by 0.4—0.8 cm; petiole 1—4 cm long, slender; apex acuminate. Inflorescence lateral and basal, up to 7 cm tall, 2- to 5-flowered; peduncle 2—3 cm long, covered by 3—4 loosely sheathing, papery, obtuse scale leaves; floral bracts 1—1.2 by 0.45—0.5 cm, sheathing, papery, glabrous, with obtuse apex. Flowers not opening widely, resupinate, glabrous on outer surface of sepals. Pedicel-with-ovary 0.8 cm long, glabrous. Median sepal cucullate, elliptic, 0.7 by 0.3 cm; apex acute. Lateral sepals slightly obliquely elliptic, 0.6—0.7 by 0.3 cm; apex acute. Petals obliquely elliptic, 0.6 by 0.35 cm; apex subacute; 3-nerved. Lip recurved, entire, ligulate to rhombic, 0.2 by 0.1—0.18 cm; apex acute or subacute; callus consisting of two raised mounds; spur 0.6 cm long, straight, cylindrical, parallel to the ovary. Column slightly dilated above, 0.25 cm long.
(after Cribb, Ormerod & Dudley 2011)

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