Species Information - Pomatocalpa marsupiale

Pomatocalpa marsupiale (Kraenzl.) J.J.Sm., Natuurk. Tijdschr. Ned.-Indië 72 (1912) 105

Type:

Synonyms:

• Cleisostoma marsupiale Kraenzl. in K.Schum. & Hollr., Fl. Kais. Wilh. Land (1889) 34
  - Type: Hollrung 743 (holo B, lost)
• Pomatocalpa sphaeroceras (Schltr.) J.J.Sm., Natuurk. Tijdschr. Ned.-Indië 72 (1912) 106
• Saccolabium sphaeroceras Schltr. in K.Schum. & Lauterb., Nachtr. Fl. Deutsch. Schutzgeb. Südsee (1905) 230
  - Type: Schlechter 14092 (holo B, lost)
• Pomatocalpa orientale J.J.Sm., Nova Guinea 12, 1 (1913) 101, pl. 28, fig. 85
  - Type: Bogor cult. (Jaheri) 54 n (iso L [possible, s.n. (1912) no coll.])
• Pomatocalpa orientale J.J.Sm. var. buruense (J.J.Sm.) J.J.Sm., Nova Guinea 12, 1 (1913) 101

Basionym: Cleisostoma marsupiale

Plant stout, with well-developed stem. Leaves strap-shaped, 25-30 by 2.5 cm, slightly falcate, at the apex unequally bilobulate, obtuse. Inflorescence nodding, branched, distinctly longer than the leaves, at the base covered with peduncle-scales; rachis becoming thicker after anthesis, with each pedicel almost immersed in a cavity of the rachis. Floral bracts hardly developed. Flower 0.4 cm diam. Sepals and petals ligulate, obtuse, slightly falcate (except the median sepal). Lip 3-lobed; lateral lobes almost square, with the upper margin almost bilobulate, contracted into a subacute angle (slightly smaller than a straight angle); mid-lobe ovate-acute, at the back with two narrow calli that do not merge at the apex; spur outside scrotiformi, inside at the back with a well-developed lamella that forms a small pocket, the margins of this pocket are dentate above the middle and there provided with a hyaline, very lightly mobile scale. Column very short. Anther flat, pollinia with long stipe. Fruit to 6 cm long, carrying the peristent flower, opening with a single slit. (After Kraenzlin, 1889)

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