Species Information - Phreatia hartleyi

Phreatia hartleyi Ormerod, Malesian Orchid J. 13 (2014) 61, fig. 12.

Type: T.G. Hartley 11214 (holo A).

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Epiphytic herb. Roots terete, slender, growing back along the stem, 0.03–0.07 cm thick. Stem erect, covered by leaf sheaths, densely foliose, 3–7 by 0.4–0.5 cm across the sheaths. Leaves linear-ligulate, 2.5–2.85 by 0.2–0.31 cm; leaf sheaths with a thin margin to 0.12 cm wide; apex obtuse to inequally obtusely bilobed. Inflorescence axillary, erect, 7.5–9 cm long; peduncle 4–5 cm long; sheaths 4, 0.45–0.75 cm long; rachis many-flowered, 3.5–4 cm long; floral bracts ovate, with c. 0.25 cm long, with acute apex. Pedicel and ovary clavate, c. 0.3 cm long. Median sepal ovate-oblong, 0.195 by 0.1 cm; apex obtuse. Lateral sepals obliquely ovate, 0.23 by 0.18 cm; apex subacute. Petals elliptic, 0.18 by 0.12 cm; apex subacute. Lip broadly elliptic-subquadrate, median concave-canaliculate, c. 0.21 by 0.15 cm (including the 0.075 cm long claw); claw elliptic-subquadrate, saccate at the base, with 2 circular glands 0.075 cm long; apex subtruncate; 3-nerved. Column stout, c. 0.08 cm long; column foot short, c. 0.03 cm long.
(after Ormerod, 2014)

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