Prev Taxon: Genus Ceratostylis
Current Genus: Genus Ceratostylis section Ceratostylis
Next Taxon: Genus Ceratostylis section Pleuranthemum
Ceratostylis sayeri Schltr., Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 9 (1910) 27
Type: Sayer s.n. (PNG, Bourawarri)
Synonyms:
Epiphytic, erect, caespitose, 10-15 cm high. Rhizome very short, rather thick. Roots filiform, elongated, flexuose, puberulous. Stems terete, towards the apex somewhat thickened, up to 6 cm long, at the apex 0.2 cm diam., at the base laxly covered with large, pale brown-reticulate, acuminate sheaths, 1-leaved. Leaves (lacking in specimens seen) undoubtedly subulate. Flowers at the apices of the stems, fasciculate; fascicles few-flowered, covered with ovate, acute, outside sparsely striate-punctate scales almost as long as the ovary. Floral bracts similar to the scales but smaller. Sepals ovate, acute, outside sparsely filamentose-puberulous, especially towards the base, 0.4 cm long. Lateral sepals oblique, at the base along the front margin extended into an oblong, concave, apically dilated lobule, connate; mentum spur-like, at the apex somewhat inflated-widened, 0.35 cm long. Petals obliquely ovate-elliptic, acute, glabrous, a little shorter than the sepals. Lip from the ligulate-unguiculate base to the middle elliptic-dilated, then towards the apex narrowed, carnose, broadly obtuse, inside with two parallel keels from the base up to the base of the thickened apex, decurrent, in between with a smaller thickened line; lip in total 0.7 cm long, near the middle 0.2 cm wide. Column short, auricles concave, obtuse, in front with two thickened lines. Column-foot slightly more than half as long as the spur. Ovary clavate, 0.3 cm long, villose. (After Schlechter, 1910).
Not recorded.
Epiphyte in montane forest. Altitude 900 m.
Malesia (New Guinea, endemic).
Papua New Guinea, Bourawarri
Intermediate growing epiphyte.
Not known
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