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Tropidia pedunculata

Tropidia pedunculata

Tropidia pedunculata Blume, Fl. Javae, n.s., 1 (1858) 103, pl. 40

Type: Korthals 700 (Padang) (syn L; iso K); Praetorius s.n. (Palembang) (syn L, BO?)

Synonyms:

  • Tropidia maingayi Hook.f., Fl. Brit. Ind. 6 (1890) 93
    - Type: Maingay s.n. (M.P., Mt. Ophir)
  • Schoenomorphus capitatus Thorel ex Gagnep., Bull. Soc. Bot. France 80 (1933) 351
    - Type: Thorel 2165 (Laos, Stung-streng, Pak-lai) (holo P)

Stem erect, 60-90 cm tall, with c. 7 leaves. Leaves 12.5-21 by 2.5-6.25 cm, elliptic, narrowed to the base, below with 5-9 prominent veins, apex long acuminate. Inflorescence terminal or less often lateral, often paired or in threes, stalked, densely subglobose; peduncle 1.2-3.8 cm long. Floral bracts twice as long as the ovary, at the base broad and concave, apex subulate. Flowers not resupinated. Sepals and petals cohering at the base, ringent, lanceolate, subfalcate, acuminate. Lip shorter than the sepals, at the base shortly adnate to the column, saccate, the sac compressed, outside with two basal keels; blade ovate, acuminate, weakly keeled, concave and slightly constricted below the recurved apical part, at the constriction with swollen margins. (After Blume, 1858).


Flower greenish white.

Terrestrial in lowland forest.

Malesia (Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Lesser Sunda Islands, Moluccas, New Guinea), Thailand, Laos, India (Arunachal Pradesh).

Papua (Indonesia). See map

distribution map

Warm growing terrestrial, requires shaded position.

July.

  • Family Orchidaceae
  • Subfamily Epidendroideae
  • Tribe Tropidieae
  • Subtribe Not used
  • Genus Tropidia
  • Species Tropidia pedunculata

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Tropidia pedunculata

Tropidia pedunculata Blume, habit, from Flora Javae n.s. 1 (1858) pl. 40.

Tropidia pedunculata

Tropidia pedunculata Blume, habit, from Flora Javae n.s. 1 (1858) pl. 40.

Tropidia pedunculata

Tropidia pedunculata Blume, floral analysis, from Flora Javae n.s. 1 (1858) pl. 40.

Tropidia pedunculata

Tropidia pedunculata Blume, floral analysis, drawing J.J. Smith, from Versteeg 1466

Tropidia pedunculata

Tropidia pedunculata Blume, herbarium sheet, Perrottet s.n. (syntype specimen L)