Prev Taxon: Genus Crepidium section Commelinoides
Current Genus: Genus Crepidium section Crepidium
Next Taxon: Genus Crepidium section Gastroglottis
Crepidium segaarense
Crepidium segaarense (Kraenzl.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones, Lasianthera 1 (1996) 39
Type: Naumann s.n. (New Guinea, Mc Cluer Bay, 18-VI-1875) (holo B, lost)
Synonyms:
- Microstylis segaarensis Kraenzl., Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 7 (1886) 435
- Malaxis segaarensis (Kraenzl.) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. (1891) 673
Leaves 1-5, narrow, linear-lanceolate, to 25 cm long, to 1 cm wide, almost as long as the inflorescence. Inflorescence glabrous, up 30-flowered. Floral bracts elliptic-lanceolate, much shorter than the ovary, deflexed. Flower 0.5 cm diam. Sepals ovate, obtuse. Petals shorter and broader, rounded. Lip 3-lobed, in the apical part coarsely dentate; lateral lobes largest, semiorbicular; mid-lobe deeply-bilobed; base of lip with a pit. Column with arm-like stelidia. (After Kraenzlin, 1886, as Microstylis segaarensis Kraenzl.)
Flowers orange.
Terrestrial in lowland forest.
Malesia (New Guinea, endemic).
Papua (Indonesia). See map
Warm growing terrestrial, requires shaded position.
June.
- Family Orchidaceae
- Subfamily Epidendroideae
- Tribe Malaxideae
- Genus Crepidium
- Species Crepidium segaarense
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Crepidium segaarense
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