Species Information - Calanthe poiformis

Calanthe poiformis P.J.Cribb, Ormerod & D.A.Clayton, Malesian Orchid Journal 8 (2011) 54, fig. 9.

Type: Brass 10858 (holo L; iso AMES).

Synonyms:

Creeping or somewhat climbing terrestrial herb 55—85 cm tall. Rhizome ascending, arising above base of previous growth. Leaves 3—4, coriaceous, suberect, narrowly lanceolate, 10—17 by 0.5—0.7 cm; petiole 8—15 cm long, slender; margins serrate; apex acuminate. Inflorescence many-flowered, up to 85 cm tall; peduncle 50—70 cm long, pubescent, bearing two acute to acuminate, suberect scale leaves; floral bracts spreading, lanceolate, 0.5—1.3 by 0.15—0.25 cm, with acuminate apex; glabrous. Flowers resupinate, sepals and petals reflexed, glabrous on outer surface of sepals. Pedicel-with-ovary 0.8—1.0 cm long, glabrous. Median sepal reflexed and adnate to ovary, oblong-elliptic, 0.5 by 0.2 cm; apex obtuse. Lateral sepals obliquely ovate, 0.5 by 0.2 cm; apex obtuse. Petals oblong, 0.5 by 0.15 cm; apex obtuse; 1-nerved. Lip 3-lobed, spreading to deflexed, 0.4 by 0.6 cm; lateral lobes obliquely lanceolate-tapering, 0.3 by 0.1 cm, with obtuse apex; midlobe 0.3 by 0.12 cm, oblong-obovate, deeply emarginate, each lobule 0.05 cm long; callus small, consisting of 2 rounded warts; spur cylindrical-clavate, rising above the ovary 1.2 cm long. Column dilated at apex, 0.3 cm long.
(after Cribb, Ormerod & Dudley 2011)

---