Species Information - Appendicula maneauensis

Appendicula maneauensis Ormerod, drawing by Paul Ormerod in Malesian Orchid J. 13 (2014) 46, fig. 6, based on L.J. Brass 23223 (holo AMES).

Type: L.J. Brass 23223 (holo AMES).

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Epiphytic herb. Rhizome short. Roots terete, pubescent, to 0.1 cm thick. Stems caespitose, pendent, terete, leafy throughout, 18.5–100 by up to 0.05 cm thick. Leaves oblong to oblong-lanceolate, 1.1–1.5 by 0.37–0.6 cm; leaf sheaths tubular, smooth, the apex opposite the leaf lamina with a 0.15–0.20 cm long V-shaped sinus, exposed part 0.35–0.5 cm long; apex with a 0.05 cm long mucro. Inflorescences axillary and pseudoterminal, 2.6–4.8 cm long; peduncle 0.4–1,3 cm long, without scales but occasionally with a disjunct leaf present; rachis flexuous to fractiflex, laxly successively-flowered, 2.2–4.2 cm long; floral bracts ovate to ovate-lanceolate, with acute apex, 3-nerved, 0.35 by 0.15 cm, lower floral bracts in pseudoterminal racemes often subfoliaceous, to 1.4 cm long. Pedicel and ovary clavate, c. 0.25 cm long. Median sepal ovate-lanceolate, 0.27 by 0.15 cm; apex obtuse; 3-nerved. Lateral sepals ovate-elliptic; midnerve low keeled, 0.4 by 0.2cm (upper free margin 0.26 cm long), subglobose; apex obtuse; apex obtuse; 2–3-nerved; mentum 0.15–0.2 cm long. Petals obliquely ligulate-lanceolate, 0.25 by 0.08 cm; apex obtuse, 1-nerved. Lip ovate-lanceolate, c. 0.4 by 0.17 cm; callus , fleshy, elliptic-subpandurate, broadly concave-canaliculate, its base retrorse, 0.09 cm tall at the base, c. 0.17 cm wide at the apex; apex obtuse-truncate, deflexed; 3–5-nerved. Column stout, conical, c. 0.18 cm long (including the rostellum of c. 0.12 cm long); anther cap ovate.

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