Species Information - Cryptostylis concava

Cryptostylis concava Schltr., Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 16 (1919) 42

Type: Kempf s.n. (Waria area, border between German and English New Guinea) (holo B, lost)

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Terrestrial, erect, 25 cm high. Roots fascicled, somewhat fleshy, finely villose. Leaves basal, two in the specimen seen, erect, petiolate, blade elliptic, shortly acuminate or apiculate, at the base cuneate, 6.5-7.5 cm long, near the middle 2.7-3 cm wide; petiole slender, channelled, 2.5-4 cm long. Inflorescence erect, substriate, with c. 5 clasping, acuminate, distant scales, terete, glabrous, 0.2 cm diam., rather laxly 6-9-flowered. Floral bracts ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, much shorter than the ovary. Flowers several not resupinate. Sepals linear-ligulate, acute, 1.3 cm long, glabrous. Median sepal deflexed. Lateral sepals suberect, oblique. Petals subpatent, lanceolate-linear, acuminate, falcate-patent, 0.6 cm long. Lip erect, at the base reniform-concave, strongly contracted; blade elliptic-oblong, concave, acuminate, almost glabrous, 0.9 cm long, near the middle 0.35 cm wide, in the basal half with a high median keel; lip in total 1.3 cm long, when flattened just above the base 0.5 cm wide, in the apical half of the hypochile with a short, rather thick double keel. Column very short, rather thick, clinandrium low, scarcely higher than the stigma. Ovary subsessile, subfusiform-cylindrical, glabrous, 1.2 cm long. (After Schlechter, 1919).

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