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Glomera montana

Glomera montana

Glomera montana Rchb.f., Linnaea 41 (1876) 77

Type: Milne 214 (holo K; iso W #37241, drawing AMES)

Synonyms:

  • Agrostophyllum reineckeanum Kraenzl., Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 25 (1898) 602
    - Type: Reinecke 297 (holo B, lost; iso E, G)
  • Glomera reineckeana (Kraenzl.) Schltr., Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 9 (1910) 96
  • Glomera gibbsiae Rolfe, J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 39 (1909) 176
    - Type: Gibbs 807
  • Glomera rugulosa Schltr., Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 1 (1912) 287
    - Type: Schlechter 18200 (holo B, lost)
  • Glomera samoensis Rolfe, Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew (1908) 414
    - Type: Funk 11 (holo K)

Epiphyte, erect or patent, up to 45 cm high; rhizome short; roots filiform, elongated, flexuose, glabrous; stems somewhat rigid, somewhat compressed, leafy, entirely covered by the leaf-sheaths; leaves erect-patent, ligulate or linear-ligulate, strongly unequally and obtusely bilobulate, glabrous, 5-10 cm long, near the middle 0.5-1.3 cm wide; sheaths closely appressed, minutely and very densely rugulose, apex with a triangular tooth opposite the leaf, 2-2.5 cm long; capitulum nodding, subglobose, 2.5-3 cm diameter, covered with broad, apiculate sheaths; bracts hyaline. Flowers glabrous. Median sepal oblong, obtuse, 0.9 cm long. Lateral sepals oblique, oblong, apiculate, connate up to below the apex, as long as the median sepal. Petals about as long as and similar to the median sepal, somewhat narrower and oblique. Lip quadrate-oblong, broadly obtuse, 0.3 cm long, spur subquadrate, broadly obtuse, about as long as but somewhat broader than the blade. Column very short, less than a third as long as the lip, clinandrium 3-lobed, lateral lobes unequally bidentate. Anther broadly cucullate, high and obtusely umbonate, in front retuse, glabrous. Ovary cylindrical, glabrous, 0.7 cm long.
(After Schlechter, 1911-1914, as Glomera rugulosa Schltr.)


Flower white, lip apex light vermillion; anther brown with white humps.

Epiphyte in montane forest. Altitude 1300-2100 m.

Malesia (New Guinea), Solomon Is., Vanuatu, Fiji, Samoa.

Papua New Guinea. See map

distribution in New Guinea

Intermediate growing epiphyte.

September.

  • Family Orchidaceae
  • Subfamily Epidendroideae
  • Tribe Arethuseae
  • Subtribe Coelogyninae
  • Genus Glomera
  • Section Glomera
  • Species Glomera montana
  • Schlechter, R., Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 21 (1923) t. 106, fig. 396, as Glomera rugulosa Schltr.
  • Lewis, B.A. & P.J. Cribb, Orchids of the Solomon Islands and Bougainville (1991) 149, fig. 34A-K, pl. 7C

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Glomera montana

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Glomera montana

Glomera montana Rchb.f., stem with inflorescence, photo E.F. de Vogel, from Leiden cult. 914331 (from Fiji)

Glomera montana

Glomera montana Rchb.f., inflorescence, photo E.F. de Vogel, from Leiden cult. 914331 (from Fiji)

Glomera montana

Glomera montana Rchb.f., inflorescence, photo E.F. de Vogel, from Leiden cult. 914331 (from Fiji)

Glomera montana

Glomera rugulosa Schltr., from Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 21 (1923) t. 106, fig. 396

Glomera montana

Glomera montana Rchb.f., herbarium sheet, Milne 214, holotype (K)