Species Information - Agrostophyllum fragrans

Agrostophyllum fragrans Schltr., Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 1 (1912) 275

Type: Schlechter 18691 (holo B, lost)

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Epiphytic, patent, up to 35 cm long. Rhizome very short. Roots filiform, elongated, flexuose, shortly villose. Stems more or less flexuose, somewhat compressed, densely leafy, entirely covered by the leaf-sheaths. Leaves erect-patent, ligulate, somewhat narrowed towards the apex, obtuse, subbilobulate, 2.5-3.7 cm long, below the middle 0.7-0.9 cm wide; leaf-sheaths close-fitting, at the apex on both sides with a linear, slightly incurved, small tooth. Capitulum subglobose, 2-2.5 cm across, at first enveloped by several sheaths. Peduncles short, covered with a few imbricating scales, 1-flowered. Bract very small, apiculate, hyaline. Flowers erect, highly fragrant. Sepals oblong, apiculate, glabrous. Median sepal 5.5 mm long. Lateral sepals 6 mm long, oblique, somewhat decurrent at the base. Petals somewhat smaller than the sepals, obliquely ligulate-oblong, obtuse, glabrous. Lip entire, in basal part ligulate-unguiculate, subsaccate-cucullate, widened into a flabellate-reniform blade, apex subretuse, 0.8 cm long, claw 0.3 cm wide; blade above the base 7.5 mm wide. Column short, somewhat thickened, glabrous, the sides near the stigma almost wing-like dilated, in front in basal half distinctly swollen, lower margin of stigma thickened. Anther ovate-cucullate, glabrous, acute, dorsally adorned with a very small callosity. Ovary cylindrical, sessile, glabrous, about 0.7 cm long. (After Schlechter, 1911-1914).

Note: Related to Agrostophyllum appendiculoides Schltr., Agrostophyllum verruciferum Schltr., Agrostophyllum fibrosum J.J.Sm. and Agrostophyllum patentissimum J.J.Sm.

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