Species Information - Bulbophyllum sawiense

Bulbophyllum sawiense J.J.Sm., Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 11 (1912) 279

Type: Gjellerup 614 (not BO)

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Rhizome pendulous, flexuous, entirely covered with persistent, appressed, veined sheaths. Roots appressed to the rhizome. Pseudobulbs spirally arranged, quadrangular, in front and back concave, in total 0.9-1 by 0.25 cm; basal part long adnate to the rhizome; free part tightly appressed to the base of the rhizome, 0.4-0.45 cm long, its apex recurved. Leaf lanceolate, acute, apiculate, fleshy, c. 3.3-4.3 by 1-0.8 cm; base narrowed and conduplicate. Inflorescences 1-flowered, from the nodes of the rhizome, fascicled; peduncle 0.5 cm long, entirely enclosed by small, tubular, membranous sheaths. Floral bract tubular, subulate-acuminate, 0.2 cm long. Flower very small. Median sepal oblong, concave, 3-nerved, 0.5 by almost 0.2 cm; top with incurved margins, conical-acuminate, acute. Lateral sepals divergent, obliquely oblong, upper 3/5th part gradually narrowed, acute, concave, 3-nerved, 0.54 by 0.2 cm; lower margin except at the base incurved. Petals very small, oblong, oblique, obtuse, 1-nerved, 0.17. by 0.08 cm; base dilated; margins minutely crenulate. Lip with a very short, membranous claw inserted on the column-foot, slightly recurved, from above linear-oblong, fleshy; base in the basal extended into a backwards-pointing, dorsally compressed, truncate appendage as long as the claw; in the basal part with dilated, erect, rounded margins, channelled-concave, in front convex, obtuse; underneath strongly channelled, pilose, 0.25 by 0.06 cm. Column 0.15 cm long; stelidia parallel, elongated, subulate, slightly curved, much longer than the anther; stigma obovate; column-foot making an obtuse angle with the ovary, incurved, oblong, concave, in cross-section especially near the apex triangular, its apex free and on either side dilated in a rounded lobule, 0.08 by 0.06 cm at the apex. Anther cucullate, laterally compressed, papillose, 0.05 cm long; margins at the base recurved; apex truncate. Ovary 6-grooved, 0.1 cm long; pedicel 0.23 cm long, 0.13 cm above the base articulate. Fruit immature, strongly 6-grooved; keels wide, slightly 2-ribbed, c. 1.5 cm long. (After Smith, 1916)

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