Prev Taxon: Genus Taeniophyllum section Taeniophyllum
Current Genus: Genus Taeniophyllum section Trachylepus
Next Taxon: Genus Tainia
Taeniophyllum calyptrogyne Ormerod, Orchadian 16 (2011) 523, fig.
Type: C. Boden Kloss s.n. (holo AMES; iso BM [image], K).
Synonyms:
Epiphytic herb. Roots semiterete, elongate, to 40 by 0.10-0.19 cm. Stem clothed with fibers of sheaths, short, 0.5-1.5 cm long. Inflorescences erect, muricate, 2.7-7.7 cm long; peduncle slender, 2.5- 7.3 cm long; rachis short, flexuous, successively singly flowered, bearing eventually c. 5 flowers, 0.2-0.4 cm long; floral bracts broadly ovate-cupulate, shortly muricate externally, c. 0.22 by 0.12 cm wide, with acute apex. Pedicel and ovary subcylindric, 0.6-0.7 cm long, furfuraceous. Flowers resupinate, outside furfuraceous. Median sepal oblong-ellipticed, c. 1 mm long, by 0.32-0.33 cm wide; apex acute; 3-nerved. Lateral sepals obliquely oblanceolate-elliptic, c. 1 by 0.4 cm; apex acute; 3-nerved. Petals shortly clawed; blade obliquely oblong lanceolate, 1.1 by 0.3 cm; apex obtuse; 3-nerved; outside furfuraceous. Lip spurred, 3-lobed; spur narrowly clavate, 1.2 cm long, with obtuse apex; hypochile subquadrate, median with a large hood that covers the entrance to the spur, c. 0.5 by 0.35 cm; epichile obdeltate, c. 0.1 by 0.1.8-2.0 cm. Column (not including rostellum) short, broadly winged, c. 0.19 by 0.18 cm; wings c. 0.1 cm wide; rostellum linear-lanceolate, c. 0.2 cm long, with bifurcate apex; anther cap ovate-lanceolate, c. 0.28 cm long; pollinia 4, globose, stipes c. 0.39 cm long. Fruit cylindric, 7 by 0.3 cm.
(after Ormerod 2011)
Flower colour not known.
Hill forest. Altitude 945 m.
Maleais (New Guinea), endemic.
Indonesia (Papua Province, XXXX Regency).
Warm growing epiphyte.
January.
Taeniophyllum calyptrogyne differs from the similar T. fragrans Schltr. in the lip which has a unique, large median hood that covers the entrance to the spur. It seems to be the only species in New Guinea with an entrance to the spur which is central (not basal).
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