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Agrostophyllum militare

Agrostophyllum militare

Agrostophyllum militare Ormerod -- Orchadian 17(1): 35 (-38; fig.). 2011

Type: A. Mack 485 (holo A).

Epiphytic herb. Stems probably caespitose, oval in cross-section, leafy throughout, 19.5-33.5 by 0.09- 0.15 cm thick at the base, 0.20-0.25 cm wide across sheaths. Leaves erect, 0.95-1.2 cm apart, ligulate-lanceolate, 2.1-4.8 by 0.16—0.3 cm; leaf sheaths exposed part 0.7-1.8 cm long, the lobes lanceolate, 0.075-0.275 cm long; apex equally to inequally long-bicuspidate, the lobes 0.05-0.35 cm long. Inflorescence terminal, with several bracts and sheaths, 1-1.5 by 0.5-0.8 cm. Pedicel and ovary slightly compressed, 0.5-0.55 cm long. Flowers outside minutely sparsely furfuraceous. Median sepal ovate-lanceolate to elliptic, 0.58-0.6 by 0.275-0.295 cm, 0.58-0.6 by 0.275-0.295 cm; apex subacute; 3-nerved. Lateral sepals obliquely ovate- elliptic, 0.69-0.7 (0.65 cm along midrib) by 0.3-0.31 cm; apex acute; 3-nerved, midrib low keeled. Petals oblong-ligulate; apex subacute to obtuse; 3-nerved, 0.55-0.58 by 0.13-0.185 mm. Lip 3-lobed, 0.65-0.7 cm long; hypochile with broadly rounded lateral lobes, 0.2-2.5 by 0.19-0.195 cm; ligula subquadrate, its apex shortly bidentate, the margins papillose-pubescent; epichile at the base very fleshy, trilobulate, 0.45 by 0.55-0.6 cm, its midlobe transversely oblong to rectangular, 0.1-0.14 by 0.2-0.29 cm, with emarginate apex. Column 0.475- 0.48 cm long (0.4 cm long without anther).
(after Ormerod 2011)


Leaves green; leaf sheaths often without black margin. Flowers white.

Habitat details not recorded. Altitude 850-1350 m.

Malesia (New Guinea).

Papua New Guinea (Chimbu and Morobe Provinces).

Intermedian growing epiphyte.

April, May, July.

  • Family Orchidaceae
  • Subfamily Epidendroideae
  • Tribe Undetermined
  • Subtribe Agrostophyllinae
  • Genus Agrostophyllum
  • Section Agrostophyllum
  • Species Agrostophyllum militare

Agrostophyllum militare is similar to A. kairoanum Ormerod but the lip epichile midlobe is transversely rectangular (not ovate), the ligula is short-toothed (not long cuspidate) and the the substigmatic appendage is situated i in the lower half of the column (not in the upper half).


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