Species Information - Calanthe womersleyi

Calanthe womersleyi P.J. Cribb & Ormerod, Malesian Orchid Journal 8 (2011) 60, fig. 12.

Type: Womersley NGF 9412 (holo AMES; iso LAE).

Synonyms:

Terrestrial herb up to 85 cm tall. Leaves suberect, narrowly lanceolate, 5—7, 25—40 by 2—3 cm; petiole 8—15 cm long, slender; apex acuminate. Inflorescence several-flowered, up to 85 cm tall; peduncle 70—75 cm long, densely pubescent, bearing two acute to acuminate, suberect scale leaves; floral bracts spreading, lanceolate, 0.4—0.9 by 0.1—0.15 cm, pubescent, with acuminate apex. Flowers resupinate, sepals and petals strongly reflexed, glabrous on outer surface of sepals. Pedicel with-ovary 0.8—0.9 cm long, very shortly pubescent. Median sepal cucullate, elliptic 0.5—0.6 by 0.3 cm; apex obtuse. Lateral sepals obliquely oblong-ovate, 0.6—0.65 by 0.3 cm; apex obtuse. Petals obovate, 0.55 by 0.22 cm; apex obtuse; 1-nerved. Lip spreading to deflexed, 3- lobed 0.75 by 0.8 cm; lateral lobes obliquely obovate, 0.55 by 0.35 cm long, with rounded apex; midlobe broadly obtriangular, 0.7 by 0.6 cm, deeply bilobulate, each lobule 0.4—0.5 cm long; callus small, consisting of 3 tapering rows of warts; spur cylindrical-clavate, rising above the ovary, 1 cm long. Column very dilated at apex, 0.3 cm long.
(after Cribb, Ormerod & Dudley 2011)

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