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Taeniophyllum kenejianum

Taeniophyllum kenejianum

Taeniophyllum kenejianum Schltr., Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 1 (1913) 1010

Type: Schlechter 18379 (holo B, lost)

Epiphytic, leafless, small; roots flattened, to 10 cm long, 0.2-0.25 cm wide. Inflorescences very slender-pedunculate, gradually elongated many- or several-flowered, to 4.5 cm long. Floral bracts minute, deltoid, 2-ranked. Flowers minute, glabrous, opening in succession. Sepals and petals connate to above the middle, c. 0.3 cm long, the free tips elliptic obtuse, outside in the middle slightly verruculose-swollen. Lip oblong, concave, apex subacute, somewhat incurved, as long as the petals, in front mouth of the spur with a transverse bifid membrane; spur globose, at the apex with a very small obtuse hump, almost three times shorter than the lip. Column very short; rostellum short; pollinia obliquely obovoid; stipe slender, towards the apex gradually somewhat dilated, almost 3 times as long as the pollinia; viscidium minute. Ovary cylindrical, subsessile, c. 0.15 cm long. (After Schlechter, 1911-1914)


Flowers light yellow.

Epiphyte in lowland forest; 150 m.

Malesia (New Guinea).

Papua New Guinea. See map

distribution map

Warm growing epiphyte.

October.

  • Schlechter, R., Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 21 (1928) t. 357, fig. 1379
  • Family Orchidaceae
  • Subfamily Epidendroideae
  • Tribe Vandeae
  • Subtribe Aeridinae
  • Genus Taeniophyllum
  • Section Codonosepalum
  • Species Taeniophyllum kenejianum

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Taeniophyllum kenejianum

Taeniophyllum kenejianum Schltr., drawing R. Schlechter in Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 21 (1928) t. 357, fig. 1379

Taeniophyllum kenejianum

Taeniophyllum kenejianum Schltr., plant habit, photo Ed de Vogel, Leiden cult. 20030189 (de Vogel & Vogel), from Papua New Guinea, Central Prov.

Taeniophyllum kenejianum

Taeniophyllum kenejianum Schltr., flower, oblique front view, photo Ed de Vogel, Leiden cult. 20030189 (de Vogel & Vogel), from Papua New Guinea, Central Prov.

Taeniophyllum kenejianum

Taeniophyllum kenejianum Schltr., flower, oblique front view, photo Ed de Vogel, Leiden cult. 20030189 (de Vogel & Vogel), from Papua New Guinea, Central Prov.

Taeniophyllum kenejianum

Taeniophyllum kenejianum Schltr., flower, lateral view, photo Ed de Vogel, Leiden cult. 20030189 (de Vogel & Vogel), from Papua New Guinea, Central Prov.