Species Information - Glomera stolonifera

Glomera stolonifera Ormerod, Malesian Orchid J 16 (2015) 66, fig. 12.

Type: F. Shaw Mayer s.n. (holo BM).

Synonyms:

Epiphytic herb. Roots terete, 0.02-0.05 cm thick. Rhizome terete, slender, elongate, rooting at nodes, 9-10 by 0.03--0.05 cm thick. Stems at the base terete, higher up compressed, 2-6-leaved in upper half, 2.3-6.0 by 0.03--0.05 cm, across leaf sheaths 0.2-0.25 cm wide. Leaves , thinly fleshy, oblong-lanceolate, 0.8-2.7 by 0.3-0.45 cm; leaf sheaths compressed tubular, truncate, smooth, exposed part 2.0-4.5 mm long; base shortly contracted for up to 0.2 cm long; apex subacute to obtuse. Inflorescence terminal, subglobose, 2-7 flowered; subtending sheath ovate, acute, 0.7 by 0.5 cm. Pedicel and ovary clavate, c. 0.48 cm long. Median sepal ovate-elliptic, joined to lateral sepals for c. 1.9 mm, 4.8 by 2.5-2.8 mm; apex subacute; 3-nerved. Lateral sepals obliquely ovate-elliptic, c. 0.65 by 0.5 cm (0.33 cm along upper margin), front margin joined for c. 0.3 cm to form a broadly ellipsoid covering over the spur; apex subacuminate, low carinate; 5-nerved. Petals ovate-elliptic, 0.4 by 0.195 cm apex obtuse; 3-nerved. Lip spurred, entire, joined to column for 0.08-0.1 cm ; spur ellipsoid, 0.2 by c.0.2 cm, 0.3 cm wide high, with obtuse apex; epichile ovate, c. 0.08 cm long, with acute, median thickened apex. Column c. 0.18 cm long; arms ovate-deltate, with subacute apex.
(after Ormerod 2015)

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