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Current Genus: Genus Glomera section Glomera
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Glomera saccharipanis Ormerod, Malesian Orchid J. 16 (2015) 63, fig. 10.
Type: R.D. Hoogland & R. Schodde 7184 (holo A).
Synonyms:
Epiphytic herb. Roots terete, to 0.1 cm thick. Rhizome not seen. Stem pendulous, lower part transversely elliptic in cross-section, higher up more compressed, laxly 5-6-branched, to at least 43 by 0.2 cm, 0.3-0.45 cm across the leaf sheaths; branchlets 13.8-26.3 cm long. Leaves thinly fleshy, lanceolate, 1.6-4.4 by 0.5-0.85 cm; leaf sheaths compressed-tubular, truncate to obliquely truncate, striate, generally smooth in lower half, laxly minutely verruculose above, exposed part 8.5- 21.0 mm long; apex acute to minutely obtuse. Pedicel and ovary fusiform, c. 0.4 cm long. Inflorescence terminal, densely many-flowered, 1.1-1.5 by 2 cm. Median sepal ovate-elliptic, 0.4 by 0.32 cm; apex subacute; 5-nerved. Lateral sepals obliquely ovate-elliptic, c. 0.42 by 0.65 cm; base dilated; subacute; 5-nerved, inner margins united to form a synsepalum that forms a 3.5 mm long (dorsally) conical-oblongoid enclosure over the spur. Petals elliptic, 4.2 by 2.5 cm; apex subacute; 3-nerved. Lip spurred, entire, joined to column for c. 0.06 cm; spur• cornuform, c. 0.4 cm long, obtuse; epichile transversely lunate-elliptic, c. 0.18 by 0.3 cm; apex obtuse. Column stout, c. 0.2 cm long; arms deltate, obtuse-truncate.
(after Ormerod 2015)
Flowers white.
Montane forest. Altitude 2895 m.
Malesia (New Guinea, endemic).
Papua New Guinea (Western Highlands Prov.). See map
Cool growing epiphyte.
April.
Glomera saccharipanis Ormerod is somewhat similar to G. rubroviridis J.J. Sm., but the median sepal is ovate-elliptic (versus ovate-oblong), the petals elliptic (versus subobovate), and the lip tip is not coloured (versus red tipped) and median not produced into an indistinct triangular midlobule.
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