Species Information - Glomera verruculosa

Glomera verruculosa (Schltr.) J.J.Sm., Bull. Jard. Bot. Buitenzorg, sér. 2, 8 (1912) 12

Type: Schlechter 14647 (B, lost; BO, K); 17210 (B, lost; K)

Synonyms:

• Glossorhyncha verruculosa Schltr., Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 1 (1912) 301
  - Type: Schlechter 14647 (B, lost; BO, K); 17210 (B, lost; K)

Epiphyte, erect or patent, 20-30 cm long; rhizome very short, roots filiform, elongated, flexuose, glabrous; stems branched, at first somewhat compressed, eventually becoming thinly terete, leafy, entirely covered by the leaf-sheaths; leaves erect-patent or subpatent, linear, apex oblique obtuse, slightly carnose, glabrous, 2-3.5 cm long, 0.2-0.25 cm wide; sheaths closely appressed, with sparsely transverse warts, shiny, apical margins ciliate with fringe-like hairs of unequal length. Flowers solitary. Spathe elliptic, apiculate, cucullate-clasping, outside sparsely punctate. Floral bract smaller, hyaline, about as long as the ovary. Sepals oblong, obtuse with minute apiculum, 0.7 cm long. Lateral sepals oblique, at the base dilated along the front margins, decurrent. Petals obliquely obovate, broadly obtuse, as long as the sepals; blade of the lip broadly ovate, obtuse, 0.35 cm long, above the base 0.3 cm wide, spur oblongoid, obtuse, 0.2 cm long, in the middle 0.15 cm wide. Column short, about half as long as the lip, clinandrium somewhat crenulate-dentate. Ovary cylindrical, glabrous, 0.5 cm long.
(After Schlechter, 1911-1914, as Glossorhyncha verruculosa Schltr.)

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