Species Information - Glomera elegantula

Glomera elegantula (Schltr.) J.J.Sm., Bull. Dép. Agric. Indes Néerl. 15 (1908) 28

Type: Schlechter 14038 (holo B, lost; iso K, P)

Synonyms:

• Glossorhyncha elegantula Schltr. in K.Schum. & Lauterb., Nachtr. Fl. Deutsch. Schutzgeb. Südsee (1905) 130
  - Type: Schlechter 14038 (holo B, lost; iso K, P)

Roots elongated, glabrous. Stems decumbent, branching, terete, slender, to 20 cm long, branches rooting, straight or slightly flexuose. Leaf sheaths about as long as the leaf-blades, with raised veins and round warts, margin not ciliate. Leaves patent, linear-lanceolate to lanceolate-ligulate, 0.5-0.8 by 0.15-0.25 cm, coriaceous, apex unequally bilobulate. Inflorescences terminal, 1-flowered, sessile. Floral bract cucullate, hardly longer than the ovary, thin-textured. Flower 0.7 cm across. Dorsal sepal oblong, 0.6 cm long, apex acute. Lateral sepals falcate, 0.4 cm by 3 mm, apex subacuminate; deflexed, slightly coherent along the inner margins. Petals erect-patent, obovate, about as long as the dorsal sepal, apex obtuse. Lip ovate-oblong, 0.25 cm long, spurred, apex narrowly obtuse; spur saccate, 0.25 cm long, obtuse. Column short, clinandrium large, entire; column-foot elongated, deflexed. Anther orbicular, apex ascending, narrowly obtuse. Pollinia obliquely obovoid.
(After Schlechter, 1905, as Glossorhyncha elegantula Schltr.).

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