Species Information - Agrostophyllum subacuminatum

Agrostophyllum subacuminatum Ormerod, Orchadian 17 (2011) 40, fig.

Type: L.J. Brass 10758 (holo AMES).

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Epiphytic herb. Roots terete, pubescent, to 0.2 cm thick. Stems caespitose, subterete, completely enclosed by leaf sheaths, laxly 6-7 leaved in upper half, 33-34.8 by 0.28 cm, to 0.4 cm wide across the leaf sheaths. Leaves linear-ligulate, 9-12 by 0.30-0.45 cm; apex equally to inequally bidentate, the leaf tips 0.3-0.4 cm long, mucro very short; leaf sheaths acute to obtuse, 0.15-0.2 cm long, with stipules. Inflorescence terminal, with several bracts and sheaths, 1-2 flowered, c. 1.5 by 0.5 cm. Pedicel and ovary subterete, 1.4 cm long. Median sepal ovate-elliptic, 0.92-0.95 by 0.4-0.47 cm; apex acute; 5-nerved. Lateral sepals obliquely ovate-elliptic, 0.95-1.17 by 0.45-0.5 cm; apex acute; 5-nerved, the apex keeled. Petals oblong to obovate-elliptic, 0.97 by 0.35-0.4 cm; apex subacuminate; 5-nerved. Lip 3-lobed, 1-1.17 cm long (including apiculus); hypochile 0.2-0.29 by 0.22 cm, inside at the base with a rounded callus, lateral lobes rounded-truncate; ligula subquadrate, bidentate, minutely papillose-pubescent; epichile 0.85-1 by 0.89-0.9 cm, midlobe transversely oblong, short to long apiculate, 0.18-0.25 by 0.59-0.61 cm. Column stout, 0.475-0.49 cm long.
(after Ormerod 2011)

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