Species Information - Glomera kuperensis

Glomera kuperensis Ormerod, Malesian Orchid J. 16 (2015) 63, fig. 9.

Type: R. Höft 3602 (holo A).

Synonyms:

Epiphytic (?) herb. Rhizome and roots not seen. Stem at the base terete, higher up subterete, 2-3-branched, 14 by 0.25-0.42 cm wide across the leaf sheaths; branchlets 4.5- 5.2 cm long. Leaves rigid, thinly coriaceous, patent to weakly erect, ovate-lanceolate, 1-2.3 by 0.6-0.9 cm; leaf sheaths tubular, obliquely truncate to truncate, smooth, weakly striate when dry, exposed part 0.2-1.1 cm long; midnerve carinate below; apex acute to subacute. Pedicel and ovary cla vate, c. 0.59 cm long. Inflorescence terminal, semig1obose, many-flowered, basally enclosed by a few sheaths, 1.5 by 2.2-3 cm. Flower colour unknown. Median sepal elliptic, lower margins joined to lateral sepals for c. 0.25 cm, 0.69 by 0.32 cm; apex subacute-obtuse; 4-nerved. Lateral sepals oblong-elliptic to elliptic, 0.7 by 0.32-0.35 cm; apex subacute; 2-3-nerved; inner margins united to form a subquadrate, narrowly retuse synsepalum 0.6 by 0.67 cm that forms a c. 0.2 cm long conical and obtuse enclosure over the spur. Petals oblong­ subrhombic, 0.64 by 0.29 cm; apex obtuse; 3-nerved. Lip spurred, entire, joined to column for c. 0.07 cm; spur broadly conical-oblongoid, c. 0.18 by to 0.2 mm, with obtuse apex; epichile subquadrate, c. 0.2.9 by 0.29 cm, broadly obtuse, 5-7-nerved. Column 0.2-0.2 cm long; arms lanceolate, subacute.
(after Ormerod 2015)

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