Species Information - Saccolabiopsis pumila

Saccolabiopsis pumila (Ridl.) Garay, Bot. Mus. Leafl. 23, 4 (1972) 198 (nom. nov.)

Type: Kloss s.n. (Camp 1, 700 ft.) (holo BM)

Synonyms:

• Saccolabium pumilum Ridl., Trans. Linn. Soc. London, Bot. 9 (1916) 204 (non Hayata)
  - Type: Kloss s.n. (Camp 1, 700 ft.) (holo BM)

Plant very small; stem 0.5 cm long, 3-leaved. Leaves thinly fleshy, lanceolate, falcate, acute, at the apex unequally bilobed, 2 by 0.4 cm. Inflorescence erect, 3.5 cm long; peduncle 2 cm long; laxly 7- to 8-flowered. Floral bracts lanceolate, acuminate, 0.1 cm long. Flower minute. Sepals oblong, obtuse, 0.2 cm long. Petals oblanceolate, spathulate, shorter than the sepals. Lip 3-lobed; lateral lobes erect, oblong, truncate, surpassing the column, mid-lobe short, recurved, ovate, obtuse, fleshy; spur pendulous, conical, broad at the base, obtuse, 0.2 cm long, without callosities. Column rather long; stelidia oblong. Anther conical. Pollinia 2 [probably 4 in 2 pairs], pear-shaped, with a clavate, cylindrical caudicle. Pedicel with ovary 0.2 cm long.
(After Ridley, 1916)

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