Species Information - Phreatia oxyantheroides

Phreatia oxyantheroides Schltr. in K.Schum. & Lauterb., Nachtr. Fl. Deutsch. Schutzgeb. Südsee (1905) 189

Type: Schlechter 14628 (holo B, lost)

Synonyms:

Epiphytic, erect, to 15 cm high; roots filiform, elongated, flexuose, glabrous. Stem almost lacking, 7-9-leaved. Leaves erect-patent, linear-oblong, apex unequally bilobed, 7-12 cm long, 1.5-1.8 cm wide, papyraceous; leaf-sheaths flattened, equitant, 3-4 cm long. Inflorescence erect-patent, with a few acuminate peduncle-scales, almost as long as the leaves. Floral bracts lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous, the lower ones longer than the ovary, the upper ones shorter. Sepals ovate-oblong, obtuse, 0.1 cm long. Lateral sepals dilated along the front margins. Petals elliptic-oblong subobtuse, almost as long as the sepals. Lip rhombic-suborbicular, obtuse, near the base on either side lobulate. Column very short; clinandrium dorsally obtusely 1-lobulate; rostellum low, obtusely triangular-bidentate. Anther rounded, in front broadly obtuse. Ovary clavate, glabrous, including the pedicel 0.2 cm long.
(After Schlechter, 1905)

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