Species Information - Appendicula dichaeoides

Appendicula dichaeoides Ormerod, Orchadian 16 (2011) 513, fig.

Type: L.J. Brass 6876 (holo AMES).

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Epiphytic herb. Roots terete, to 0.1 cm thick. Rhizome very short. Stems caespitose, terete, densely leafy throughout, 4-10 by 0.05-0.1 cm. Leaves patent, thin, ovate-oblong to elliptic, 0.15-0.3 cm apart, 0.7-1.05 by 0.25-0.45 cm; sheaths tubular. Inflorescence terminal, sessile, densely flowered, 0.8-1.4 cm long, slightly flexuous but straightening and thickening when bearing capsules, occasionally at the base with 1 branch to 5 mm long; floral bracts arcuate-patent, ovate-elliptic, 0.5-0.8 by 0.3-0.7 cm, margin erose-lacerate, apex mucronate, 7-nerved. Pedicel and ovary terete, 0.25-0.275 cm long. Median sepal oblong-Ianceolate, c. 0.35 by 0.15 cm; apex with a short dorsal apiculus. Lateral sepals obliquely ovate-oblong, 0.395-4 by 0.15 cm; basal extensions concave, enclosing the spur, subquadrate, c. 0.18 by 0.19 cm; apex with a prominent apiculus; midrib slightly carinate. Petals obliquely elliptic, 0.275-3 by 013-0.14 cm; apex subacute. Lip spurred, entire; spur obovoid-ellipsoid, truncate-rounded, c. 0.15 by 0.09-0.095 cm, inside at apex with a thick erect callus; blade broadly obovate-rhombic, 0.35 by 0.21-0.22 cm, its front margin dentate, with rounded apex, , median at the base softly pilose, more apically with an erect disc-shaped verticaltal callus, and eextending to near the apex with a low rugulose cuneate-flabellate callus. Column c. 0.15 cm long, seemingly footless. Fruit ellipsoid, 0.3-0.4 by 0.15- 0.2 cm.
(after Ormerod 2011)

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