Species Information - Agrostophyllum wagiribuanum

Agrostophyllum wagiribuanum Ormerod, Orchadian 17 (2012) 187, fig.

Type: Reeve 5434 (holo K; iso LAE, NSW).

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Epiphytic herb. Roots terete, 0.08 cm thick. Stems caespitose, slender, , sublaxly many leaved, 29-35 by 0.075-0.150 cm, 0.20-0.25 cm wide across leaf sheaths; base terete, higher up slightly compressed; internodes 0.7-1.3 cm long. Leaves linear-ligulate, thin, 3.2-4.9 by 0.17-0.23 cm; leaf sheaths closing about halfway down the internode; stipules lanceolate, acute, 0.08-0.13 cm long; apex inequally bidentate, tips 0.08-0.2 cm long. Inflorescence terminal, composed of several bracts and sheaths that break down into fibrous remnants, successively 1- to few-flowered, 1-1.5 by 0.5-1cm. Pedicel and ovary clavate­ triquetrous,0. 5 cm long. Median sepal elliptic-lanceolate, 0.6 by 0.27 cm; carinate in apical third; apex acute; 3-nerved. Lateral sepals obliquely ovate-elliptic; shortly thickly carinate near apex; apex acute; 3-nerved, 0.62 by 0.3 cm (0.6 cm along the midrib). Petals oblong-lanceolate, 0.5 by 0.18 cm; margin irregular; apex acute; 3-nerved. Lip 3-lobed, c. 0.64 cm long; hypochile shortly retrorse saccate, c. 0.22 by 0.175 cm, the lateral lobes widest halfway, rotundate; ligula subquadrate­cuneate, widely bidentate, papillose-pubescent, raised 0.08-0.09 cm above the lateral lobes; epichile trilobulate, with irregular margins, 0.42 by 0.54 cm, the median lobule transversely oblong, c. 0.1 by 0.285-0.29 cm; apex irregularly truncate-emarginate with an apiculus below the apex. Column semi-terete, rather stout; median with deltate, obtuse lateral wings, 0.42 cm long with anther cap (0.375 cm without).
(after Ormerod, 2012)

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