Pinalia microglossa (Schltr.) Ormerod, Malesian Orchid J. 7 (2011) 85
Type: Schlechter 16711 (holo B, lost)
Synonyms:
Epiphyte, erect, 20 cm high; rhizome short, decumbent, carnose; roots very slender, filiform, elongated, flexuose, minutely puberulous; pseudobulbs 1-1.5 cm apart, cylindrical, carnose, entirely covered with a few closely appressed sheaths which soon dry out, apex 2-3-leaved, 8-12 cm long, above the middle 0.3-0.5 cm diameter; leaves erect-patent, linear-ligulate, narrowly obtuse, gradually somewhat narrowed at the base, glabrous, 8-13 cm long, near the middle 0.8-1.3 cm wide; Inflorescence arising near the apices of the pseudobulbs, lateral, laxly several-flowered, leaves about half as long as the leaves, erect-patent, peduncle short; bracts recurved, elliptic; acute, somewhat shorter than the ovary. Flowers erect-patent, glabrous. Sepals oblong-lanceolate, subacute, glabrous, 0.7 cm long. Lateral sepals oblique, at the base somewhat dilated along the front margin, mentum obtuse, short 0.1 cm long. Petals obliquely lanceolate, acute, glabrous, 0.5 cm long. Lip in outline ovate-lanceolate, 0.4 cm long, in basal third 0.2 cm wide, subacute, apical half somewhat narrowed, at the base cuneate, below the middle with two parallel, rounded, short lamellae. Column semiterete, glabrous, 0.13 cm high, column-foot short, clinandrium low, lobes truncate. Anther rounded-cucullate, glabrous, in front broadly obtusely bidentate. Ovary subsessile, glabrous, 0.7 cm long.
(After Schlechter, 1911-1914)
Not recorded.
Epiphyte in lowland forest. Altitude 500 m.
Malesia (New Guinea, endemic).
Warm growing epiphyte.
October.
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