Species Information - Agrostophyllum macrocephalum

Agrostophyllum macrocephalum Schltr., Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 1 (1912) 270

Type: Schlechter 19060 (holo B, lost; iso AMES, BO, K)

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Epiphytic, erect, robust, up to 100 cm high. Rhizome very short. Roots filiform, elongated, flexuose, glabrous. Stems straight or almost straight, almost terete, densely leafy, entirely covered by the leaf-sheaths. Leaves erect-patent, linear-lanceolate or lanceolate-ligulate, acute, minutely apiculate, up to 27 cm long, below the middle 2.5-3 cm wide; leaf-sheaths at the apex on either side obtusely angular. Capitulum up to 8 cm across, very many-flowered, enveloped by several sheaths, peduncles up to 3 cm long, covered with a few scales, few-flowered. Floral bracts very small, hyaline, apiculate. Flowers erect or erect-patent. Sepals ovate, apiculate or shortly acuminate, glabrous, 0.75 cm long. Lateral sepals oblique, somewhat decurrent. Petals obliquely oblong, obtuse, glabrous, margin towards the apex subdenticulate. Lip in basal part semiglobose-saccate, 3-lobed; lateral lobes very short, broadly obtuse, erect; mid-lobe large, subreniform, above the middle 3-lobulate, margins irregularly serrate-dentate, 0.5 cm long, below the middle 0.7 cm wide, lobules rounded, median lobule extending well beyond the lateral lobules, semi-orbicular, apex shallowly emarginate, in front of the mouth of the sac with a transverse, low lamella with denticulate margin; sac 0.4 cm long. Column slightly thickened, next to the stigma somewhat swollen, below the stigma adorned with a decurved, fleshy, semi-orbicular projection, glabrous, in basal half in front slightly swollen. Anther broadly rhombic-ovate, cucullate, apiculate, glabrous. Ovary cylindrical, glabrous, sessile, about 1 cm long. (After Schlechter, 1911-1914).

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