Species Information - Calanthe crispifolia

Calanthe crispifolia Ormerod, Orchadian 16 (2010) 418, fig.

Type: L.J. Brass 9012 (holo AMES).

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Terrestrial herb. Stem very short. unifoliate, rooting at base. Leaf probably immature, ovate-oblong, c. 3.5 by 1.4 cm: apex acute; margin crispate. Inflorescence axillary, terete, c. 57.7 cm long, pubescent; peduncle c. 32 cm by 0.25 cm, with 2, remote, tubular, obliquely truncate, sheathing scales 1.30-1.65 cm long; rachis laxly many-flowered, 25.7 cm long; floral bracts ovate to lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, 0.4-0.9 by 0.2 cm, with acute apex. Pedicel and ovary clavate, 0.8 cm long, shortly and finely pubescent. Flowers resupinate. Medianl sepal erect to reflexed, elliptic, 0.52 by 0.3 cm; apex emarginate; 3-nerved. Lateral sepals reflexed, obliquely elliptic, 0.5 by 0.28-0.29 cm; apex subacute; 3-nerved. Petals obliquely attached to the base of the column, projecting forward under the side of the lip, ligulate oblanceolate, 0.5 by 0.175 cm; apex obtuse; 1-nerved. Lip joined to the column for c. 0.25 cm, spurred, 3-lobed, somewhat fleshy, free part c. 0.28 by 0.39 cm across the lateral lobe tips; spur subcylindric clavate, obtuse, directed backwards, curved slightly downward to upward, 1.1 cm long; midlobe subquadrate, 0.13-0.14 by 0.18 cm, with shortly bilobed-emarginate apex; lateral lobes obliquely oblong-elliptic, 0.19-0.2 cm long from outer base to apex, with obtuse apex; callus consisting of three thick, short keels, barely projecting from between apical lobes of column. Column broadly and obliquely dilated, c. 0.35 by 0.2 cm.
(after Ormerod 2010)

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