Prev Taxon: Genus Glomera
Current Genus: Genus Glomera section Glomera
Next Taxon: Genus Glomera section Uniflorae
Glomera pseudomonanthos
Glomera pseudomonanthos Ormerod, Austrobaileya 7 (2005) 193, fig. 7
Type: NGF23408 (A. Millar) (holo: LAE; iso: AMES, BRI, BO, CANB, K, L).
Synonyms:
Epiphytic or terrestrial herb. Rhizome short. Stem terete at base, becoming complanate, 29—36.5 by 0.2—0.5 cm, laxly 4—8-leaved or more. Leaves subpetiolate, ± oblong, 3—6.5 by 0.9—1.3 cm, 1.1—2.3 cm long and 0.4—0.7 cm wide; sheaths obcuneate, with truncate apex, smooth, lightly striate; apex sub-equally and obtusely bilobed. Inflorescences terminal, capitate, subglobose, c. 1.5 cm wide; spathe ovate-elliptic, acute, c. 2 by 1.2 cm. Flowers resupinate. Pedicel and ovary 6-ribbed, 0.5—0.7 cm long, glabrous. Median sepal broadly elliptic, 0.4—0.45 by 0.3—0.35 cm; apex shortly acuminate; 5-nerved. Lateral sepals connate to the back of the spur, elliptic-quadrate, c. 0.5 by 0.35 cm; apex very shortly acuminate; 5-nerved. Petals obovate-elliptic, c. 0.45 by 0.3 cm; apex very shortly and obtusely apiculate. Lip lamina fleshy, obovate, c. 0.2 by 0.2 cm; apex obtuse. Spur subglobose, c. 0.2 cm long. Column c. 0.16 cm long.
(After Ormerod, 2005)
Leaves light to dark glossy green. Sepals and petals white to greenish-white, lip green to dark green with apex dark green to purple-black.
Lower montane to nontane forest. Altitude 1220—2200 m.
Malesia (New Guinea)
Indonesia (Papua Province, Boven Digoel Regency); Papua New Guinea (Enga, Southern Highlands and Morobe Provincees)
Intermedian growing epiphyte
March, June and July.
- Family Orchidaceae
- Subfamily Epidendroideae
- Tribe Arethuseae
- Subtribe Coelogyninae
- Genus Glomera
- Section Glomera
- Species Glomera pseudomonanthos
Glomera pseudomonanthos can be distinguished from the probably closely related G. subpetiolata Schltr. by its relatively short, flattened stems and leaf sheaths, (versus less flattened and more slender), oblong leaves (narrower leaves) and white flowers with a green tip and darker apex (versus only the apex of the lip dark green).
Sponsored Ads
Glomera pseudomonanthos
Glomera pseudomonanthos Ormerod. Drawing Paul Ormerod in Austrobaileya 7 (2005) 193, fig. 7, based on the type: NGF 23408 (A. Millar).