Pseuderia takeuchii
Pseuderia takeuchii Ormerod, Austrobaileya 7 (2005) 196, fig. 8.
Type: W. Takeuchi 6632 (holo: BRI; iso: AMES).
Synonyms:
Epiphytic herb. Roots and lower part of plant not seen. Stem terete, branching, laxly foliose, more than 32 cm long, lower part to 0.3 cm thick, upper part 0.1-0.175 cm; internodes 0.4-1.6 cm long, on branchlets most c. 0.8 mm long. Leaves lanceolate, acute, thin, 4.85-6.0.5 by 0.3-0.5.5 cm; leaf sheath striate, minutely hairy. Inflorescences to 5 cm long, arising suboppositely to leaf lamina, probably successively one-flowered. Flowers resupinate; pedicel and ovary terete, c. 0.65 cm long. Median sepal linear-ligulate, c. 1.2 by 0.2 cm; apex obtuse; 3-nerved. lateral sepals falcate, ligulate, c. 1 by 0.25 cm; apex apiculate, 3-nerved. Petals slightly falcate, linear-ligulate, c. 9 mm long and 1.6-1.75 mm wide; apex obtuse; 3-nerved, Lip obovate-oblanceolate, c. 0.8 by 0.35 cm; attachment. 0.05 cm wide; apex obtuse, apical third laxly pubescent becoming densely pubescent; keel 1, in lower half of lip, double crested for c. 3 mm, further unicarinate,. Colunm slender, gently arcuate, c. 0.55 cm long.
(after Ormerod 2005)
Leaf sheath minutely black-brown hairy. Pedicel and ovary red- brown. Flowers red-brown.
In tall alluvial lowland forest in the flood zone of the river; 100 m.
Malesia (New Guinea
Papua New Guinea (.East Sepik Province) See map
Warm growing terrestrial.
September.
- Family Orchidaceae
- Subfamily Epidendroideae
- Tribe Podochileae
- Subtribe Eriinae
- Genus Pseuderia
- Species Pseuderia takeuchii
Pseuderia takeuchii is similar to Pseuderia brevifolia J.J.Sm. in the short leaves but these are 3—5 times narrower, in the red-brown flowers (versus yellowish with red to violet dots), and in the lip wihich has a dense pubescent patch near its apex (versus entirely loosely papillose to pubescent, towards the top more densely so).
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Pseuderia takeuchii
Pseuderia takeuchii Ormerod. Drawing by Paul Ormerod in Austrobaileya 7 (2005) 196, fig. 8, based on the type: W. Takeuchi 6632.