Species Information - Agrostophyllum crassilabium

Agrostophyllum crassilabium Ormerod, Orchadian 16 (2011) 566, fig.

Type: L.J. Brass 12691 (holo AMES).

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Epiphytic herb. Roots terete, pubescent, to 0.1 5 cm thick. Stems caespitose, slightly compressed, basally terete, clothed with leaf sheaths, 33.7 by 0.20-0.35 cm; apex 3(-5?) leaved. Leaves erect, linear-ligulate, 21.2-23.3 by 0.55-0.68 cm;
The Orchadian, Volume 16 Number 12 566
apex acute to minutely acutely obliquely unequally bidentate; leaf sheaths 3.5-4.0 by 0.50-0.55 cm, stipules deltate, obtuse, to 0.3 cm Iong. Inflorescence terminal, composed of several bracts and sheaths, 5- or more flowered, 2 cm long and wide. Pedicellate ovary triquetrous but with rounded ribs, possibly laxly furfuraceous, c. 12 mm long. Flowers externally laxly furfuraceous. Median sepal ovate-elliptic, 0.53 by 0.33 cm; apex acute, midrib slightly carinate in upper half; 4-5-nerved. Lateral sepals obliquely ovate-elliptic, 0.7 by 0.34 cm; apex acute, midrib narrowly carinate; 4-5-nerved. Petals irregularly oblong lanceolate, 0.5 by 0.1.8 cm; apex subacute; 3-nerved. Lip 3-lobed, 0.7 cm long; hypochile c. 0.2 by 0.1.8 cm, with low, almost straight edged truncate lateral lobes; ligula subquadrate, with recurved, trilobulate, papillose-pubescent apex; epichile very fleshy, suborbicular, c. 0.5 by 0.55 cm, with irregular margin and obtuse apex. Column 0.3 cm long.
(after Ormerod 2011)

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