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Taeniophyllum fimbriatum
Taeniophyllum fimbriatum J.J.Sm., Bull. Dép. Agric. Indes Néerl. 19 (1908) 37
Type: Versteeg 1317 (holo BO)
Synonyms:
Stem very short, leafless; roots to 30 cm long, 0.2-0.3 cm wide. Inflorescence several-flowered; peduncle filiform, 4-5 cm long; peduncle-scales two, minute, near the base and in the middle; rachis flexuose, angular, 0.8 cm long or more, internodes 0.15 cm long. Floral bracts in two alternating rows, clasping the rachis, triangular, acute, concave, keeled, 0.13 cm long. Flowers opening singly in succession. Sepals linear-caudate, acute, glabrous, 1.65 cm long, at the base 0.16 cm wide. Petals at the base lanceolate, filiform-elongated, fimbriate, 1.5 by 0.18 cm. Lip spurred, at the base suborbicular, rather narrowly triangular-contracted, filiform-elongated, 1.23 cm long, at the base 0.3 cm, wide; spur obovoid, 0.18 cm long. (After Smith, 1909)
Flower pale yellow.
Epiphyte in lowland forest.
Malesia (New Guinea).
Papua (Indonesia). See map
Warm growing epiphyte.
Not known.
- Smith, J.J., Nova Guinea 8, 1 (1909) 128, t. 43, fig. 144
- Family Orchidaceae
- Subfamily Epidendroideae
- Tribe Vandeae
- Subtribe Aeridinae
- Genus Taeniophyllum
- Section Rhynchanthera
- Species Taeniophyllum fimbriatum
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Taeniophyllum fimbriatum
Taeniophyllum fimbriatum J.J.Sm., floral analysis, drawing J.J. Smith, from Versteeg 1317
Taeniophyllum fimbriatum
Taeniophyllum fimbriatum J.J.Sm., herbarium sheet, Versteeg 1317 (holotype specimen BO)