Species Information - Pseuderia amblyornidis

Pseuderia amblyornidis (Rchb.f.) Ormerod, Oasis, Suppl. 1 (2001) 2

Type: Beccari s.n. (Irian Jaya, Mt. Arfak 4800 ft.) (holo FI)

Synonyms:

• Dendrobium amblyornidis Rchb.f., Gard. Chron. (1878, I) 332
  - Type: Beccari s.n. (Irian Jaya, Mt. Arfak 4800 ft.) (holo FI)
• Monanthos amblyornidis (Rchb.f.) Rauschert, Feddes Repert. 94 (1983) 454

Stem slender, rather stiff, branching, c. 60 cm long; densely covered with minutely spotted sheaths. Leaves thick papyraceous, cuneate-ligulate, apex obliquely acuminate, 0.09 by 0.015 [feet? = 2.7 by 0.45 cm]. Inflorescence very short, 1- or 2-flowered. Floral bracts small. Fruiting ovary with pedicel to 0.03 [feet? = 0.9 cm] long. Median sepal cuneate-ligulate, acute. Lateral sepals falcate, subacute. Petals linear. Lip clawed, oblong, with two keels in the center. Column elongated, almost trigonous, slender, about as long as the sepals. (After Reichenbach f., 1878)

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