Species Information - Agrostophyllum carrianum

Agrostophyllum carrianum Ormerod, Orchadian 17 (2012) 227

Type: Carr 17213 (holo BM; iso L).

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Epiphytic? herb. Roots terete, fleshy, pubescent, to 0.2 cm thick. Stems caespitose, complanate, laxly 8-9 leaved, 49.5-53 by 0.5-0.6 cm; covered by leaf sheaths but upper internodes for up to 6.7 cm of exposed. Leaves linear-ligulate, 6-35 by 0.75-1.3 cm; leaf sheaths exposed part to 0.95 by, 0.75-0.95 cm; stipules deltate, acute, to 0.1 cm wide; apex bidentate to tridentate; thinly coriaceous. lnflorescence terminal, globose, composed of numerous bracts, sheaths and flowers, 2-2.2 by 2-2.2 cm. Pedicel and ovary clavate, , c. 0.52 cm long. Median sepal elliptic, 0.57 by 0.28 cm; apical third carinate; apex acute; 5-nerved. Lateral sepals obliquely ovate-lanceolate, 0.73 by 0.3 cm (0.63 cm along the midrib); upper half thickly carinate; apex subacute; 6-nerved. Petals narrowly elliptic, 0.49-0.57 by 0.19-0.21 cm; apex subacute; 3-nerved. Lip 3-lobed, 7.3-7.5 mm long; hypochile c. 0.3 by 0.1 cm, retrorse saccate, the sac c. 0.1 cm long, with obliquely truncate lateral lobes; ligula subquadrate, bidentate to tridentate, minutely papillose-pubescent; epichile trilobulate, trapeziform, 0.42-0.52 by 0.42-0.5 cm, its base with 2 narrowly oblong calli, midlobule c. 0.1 by 0.22 cm, its apex bilobulate emarginate. Column obliquely erect, 0.29 cm long (0.215 cm long without anther cap).
(After Ormerod, 2012)

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