Species Information - Agrostophyllum milneanum

Agrostophyllum milneanum Ormerod, Orchadian 17 (2011) 38,; fig.

Type: L.J. Brass 22380 (holo AMES).

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Epiphytic herb. Roots terete, pubescent, 0.1-0.15 cm thick. Rhizome fragment 3 by 0.25 cm thick. Stems caespitose, rather flat, covered by leaf sheaths, 29-41 by 0.10-0.25 cm, 0.3-0.6 cm wide across leaf sheaths, at the base subterete, leaves rather dense to rather lax. Leaves 1.5-2.3 cm apart, linear-ligulate, 6.8- 11.2 by 0.30-0.55 cm; apex deeply bidentate, the lobes to 0.2 cm long,with a narrowly deltate mucro; leaf sheaths exposed part 1.1-2.5cm long, with deltate to lanceolate, acute, fragile stipules 0.05-0.3 cm long. Inflorescence terminal, with sheaths and bracts, few-flowered, 1.5-2.3 by 0.6-1 cm. Pedicel and ovary subfusiform, c. 0.85 cm long. Median sepal oblong-elliptic 0.74 by 0.295 cm; apex subacuminate,the midrib low keeled in the apical quarter; 3-nerved with branching lateral veins. Lateral sepals obliquely oblong-elliptic, 0.85 by 0.3 cm; inner margins joined for 0.4 cm to form a synsepalum; apex subacuminate; midrib keeled towards apex; 3-nerved. Petals lanceolate, 0.68 by 0.185 cm; apex acute; 3-nerved. Lip 3-lobed, c. 0.95 cm long; hypochile oblongoid with oblique lateral lobes, c. 0.4 by 0.2 cm wide; ligula rectangular, shallowly bidentate, papillose-pubescent, raising c. 0.175 cm above the lateral lobes; epichile 3-lobulate, transversely elliptic-flabellate, 0.55 by 0.8 cm, with transversely oblong midlobe, its apex obtuse, broad, c. 0.1 by 0.3 cm. Column slender, 4.5 mm long, with deltate, acute wings and a retrorse uncinate substigmatic process (in lateral view).
(after Ormerod 2011).

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