Prev Taxon: Genus Taeniophyllum section Microtatorchis
Current Genus: Genus Taeniophyllum section Rhynchanthera
Next Taxon: Genus Taeniophyllum section Taeniophyllum
Taeniophyllum conoceras
Taeniophyllum conoceras Schltr., Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 1 (1913) 1018
Type: Schlechter 16318 (holo B, lost)
Synonyms:
Epiphytic, leafless, small; roots flattened, flexuose, to 25 cm long, 0.15-0.2 cm wide. Inflorescence densely few-flowered, including the hair-like peduncle to 3.5 cm long. Floral bracts deltoid, minute, much shorter than the ovary. Flowers very small, opening in succession, glabrous. Sepals and petals elliptic, acute, 0.5 cm long. Lateral sepals oblique. Lip cucullate-concave, ovate, subobtusely acuminate, above the middle cuneiform-pitted, as long as the sepals, spur conical obtuse, straight, a third as long as the lip-blade. Column short; rostellum horn-shaped. Anther ovate-cucullate, rostrate; pollinia obliquely oblongoid; stipe twice as long as the pollinia, at the base slender, obovate; viscidium turned backwards, lanceolate, acute. Ovary subsessile, 0.4 cm long, glabrous. (After Schlechter, 1911-1914)
Flowers light yellow.
Epiphyte in lowland forest; 150 m.
Malesia (New Guinea).
Papua New Guinea. See map
Warm growing epiphyte.
July.
- Schlechter, R., Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 21 (1928) t. 361, fig. 1393
- Family Orchidaceae
- Subfamily Epidendroideae
- Tribe Vandeae
- Subtribe Aeridinae
- Genus Taeniophyllum
- Section Rhynchanthera
- Species Taeniophyllum conoceras
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Taeniophyllum conoceras
Taeniophyllum conoceras Schltr., flower, lateral view, photo Reza Saputra, from Indonesia, Papua Barat Prov., Sorong town, SE margin
Taeniophyllum conoceras
Taeniophyllum conoceras Schltr., plant habit, photo Reza Saputra, from Indonesia, Papua Barat Prov., Sorong town, just SE of the populated area
Taeniophyllum conoceras
Taeniophyllum conoceras Schltr., flower, front view, photo Reza Saputra, from Indonesia, Papua Barat Prov., Sorong town, SE margin
Taeniophyllum conoceras
Taeniophyllum conoceras Schltr., flower, front view, photo Reza Saputra, from Indonesia, Papua Barat Prov., Sorong town, SE margin
Taeniophyllum conoceras
Taeniophyllum conoceras Schltr., flower, lateral view, photo Reza Saputra, from Indonesia, Papua Barat Prov., Sorong town, SE margin
Taeniophyllum conoceras
Taeniophyllum conoceras Schltr., drawing R. Schlechter in Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 21 (1928) t. 361, fig. 1393