Species Information - Agrostophyllum kairoanum

Agrostophyllum kairoanum Ormerod, Orchadian 17 (2011) 35 fig.

Type: A. Kairo 486 (holo A; iso BFC, L, LAE).

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Epiphytic herb. Roots terete, fleshy, to 0.2 cm thick. Stems caespitose, leafy throughout, 28.0-32.5 by 0.09 cm at the base, 0.3-0.4 cm wide across sheaths. Leaves erect, linear-ligulate, 2.9-7.2 by 0.2-0.35 cm; leaf sheaths nearly open down to next leaf, 0.7-1.7 cm long, its stipules lanceolate, 0.3-0.6 cm long; apex strongly inequally acutely bidentate, the longer tooth to 0.3 cm long, the shorter tooth 0.05-0.1 cm long. Inflorescence terminal, with numerous bracts and sheaths, with flowers seemingly emerging in pairs, 1.5- 1.8 by 0.7-1 cm wide. Pedicel and ovary terete, c. 0.5 cm long. Median sepal oblong-elliptic, 0.66 by 0.25 cm; apex broadly apiculate; 5-nerved. Lateral sepals obliquely oblong-lanceolate, broadly apiculate, 5-nerved, 0.79 (7.1 mm along 0.) by 29 cm. Petals ligulate-lanceolate, 0.57 by 0.15 cm; apex subacute. Lip 3-lobed, 0.78 cm long; hypochile with rounded-truncate lateral lobes, c. 3.by 1.75 cm; ligula subquadrate, its apex with 2 long, lanceolate cusps; epichile trilobulate, c. 0.35 by 0.6 cm, midlobe ovate, bluntly apiculate, 0.1-0.13 by 0.22 cm. Column slender, 0.35-0.36 cm long, in upper half with 2 short obtuse wings.
(after Ormerod 2011)

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