Species Information - Glomera geminata

Glomera geminata Ormerod, Malesian Orchid J. 16 (2015) 60.

Type: L.J. Brass 11885 (holo AMES, iso BRl).

Synonyms:

Epiphytic herb. Roots terete, 0.02--0.06 cm thick. Stems terete, slender, usually simple, rarely branched, subdensely 4-15 leaved, occasionally rooting from nodes, 4-6.5 by 0.03-0.12 cm across the leaf sheaths. Leaves oblong-lanceolate to oblong, 0.35-0.8 by 0.15-0.32 cm, thinly coriaceous, patent; leaf sheaths tubular, truncate, transversely rugulose-verrucose, exposed part 0.15-0.45 cm long; apex obtusely bilobed. Inflorescence terminal, 2-flowered, c. 0.7 by 0.4-0.5 cm; outer sheaths 2, elliptic-suborbicular, cupulate, 0.5 by 0.4 cm, with subacute apex. Pedicel and ovary terete, 0.35 cm long. Median sepal ovate-elliptic, lower margins joined to lateral sepals for c. 0.15 cm, c. 0.49 by 0.26 cm; minutely thickened near apex; apex obtuse; 3-nerved. Lateral sepals obliquely ovate-elliptic; 3-nerved, 0.6 by 0.25 cm; apex subacute, inner margins united to form a trapeziform, synsepalum c. 0.6 by 0.5 cm with deeply retuse top (free parts 0.3 cm long) that forms a c. 0.22 cm long conical enclosure over the spur. Petals oblong-rhombic to oblong-oblanceolate, 0.48 by 0.19 cm; apex subacute to obtuse; 1-2-nerved. Lip spurred, entire, joined to the column for c. 0.05 cm; spur oblongoid, 0.2 by 0.1 cm, with obtuse apex; epichile widely ovate, c.0.1 by 0.19 cm; midnerve thickened near apex; apex subacute; 7-nerved. Column c. 0.16 cm long; arms lanceolate; apex acute.
(after Ormerod 2015)

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