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Glomera pilifera

Glomera pilifera

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

Type: Schlechter 14557 (holo B, lost)

Synonyms:

  • Glossorhyncha pilifera Schltr. in K.Schum. & Lauterb., Nachtr. Fl. Deutsch. Schutzgeb. Südsee (1905) 131
    - Type: Schlechter 14557 (holo B, lost)

Roots elongated, glabrous. Stems decumbent to pendulous, branching, terete, slightly compressed towards the apex, to 20 cm long, many-leaved. Leaf sheaths sparsely verrucose, margin with white, patent to erect, bristle-like hairs. Leaves patent to erect-patent, narrowly lanceolate to lanceolate-elliptic, 0.6-1 by 0.2-0.3 cm, subcoriaceous, apex unequally bilobulate. Inflorescences terminal, 1-flowered. Floral bract cucullate, about as long as the ovary, with black dots, sparsely verruculose. Flower c. 0.7 cm across. Dorsal sepal oblong-ligulate, 0.4 cm long, apex acute. Lateral sepals obliquely subfalcate-oblong, widened in front at the base, about as long as the dorsal sepal, apex acute; not cohering. Petals erect-patent, obliquely obovate-spatulate, subfalcate, about as long as but broader than the dorsal sepal, apex obtuse. Lip concave, when flattened broadly rhomboid-ovate, c. 0.2 by 0.2 cm, spurred, obtuse; spur saccate, short, apex obtuse. Column short, clinandrium dorsally dentate, rostellum large, obtuse. Anther orbicular, apex elongated, ascending, obtuse.
(After Schlechter, 1905, as Glossorhyncha pilifera Schltr.).


Flower white.

Epiphyte in hill forest. Altitude 600 m.

Malesia (New Guinea, endemic).

Papua New Guinea. See map

distribution in New Guinea

Warm-intermediate growing epiphyte, keep in shade.

April.

  • Family Orchidaceae
  • Subfamily Epidendroideae
  • Tribe Arethuseae
  • Subtribe Coelogyninae
  • Genus Glomera
  • Section Uniflorae
  • Species Glomera pilifera
  • Schlechter, R., Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 1 (1912) 302, as Glossorhyncha pilifera Schltr.
  • Schlechter, R., Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 21 (1923) t. 110, fig. 412, as Glossorhyncha pilifera Schltr.

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Glomera pilifera

Glomera pilifera (Schltr.) J.J.Sm., as Glossorhyncha pilifera Schltr., from Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 21 (1923) t. 110, fig. 412