Botanical Description for this Species
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Descriptions used for plant identification key are shown in BOLD. Plant Part | General | Color | Hairs | Texture | Shape | Length | Width |
Rhizome |
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| 0 to 0 cm | 0 to 0 cm |
Sheath |
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| variable
| | | 0 to 0 cm | 10 to 40 mm |
Ligule | short, 5-10 mm
| | variable
| | truncate
| 5 to 10 mm | 0 to 0 mm |
Petiole |
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| variable
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| 5 to 20 mm | 0 to 0 mm |
Leaf | lower side of leaves glabrous to villose
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| narrowly ovate to narrowly obovate | 20 to 65 cm | 5 to 15 cm |
...upper | | green
| variable
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...under | | green
| variable
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...base | |
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| cuneate, rounded or rarely cordate
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...apex | | | | | shortly acuminate
| 0 to 0 mm | |
Inflorescence | terminal on a leafy stem or on separate leafless shoot to .5 m tall.
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| ovoid, obtuse
| 5 to 15 cm | 4 to 6 cm |
Bract | all bracts with foliaceous, green appendages, or apices of all bracts reflexed., callus absent or 10 mm | green exposed, red covered part
| variable
| coriaceous
| broadly ovate | 2.0 to 4.0 cm | 0.0 to 5.0 cm |
Appendage | ascending or slightly reflexed, rarely absent | green |
| foliaceous, rigid
| narrowly triangular to deltate | 2.0 to 4.0 cm | 1.5 to 2.0 cm |
Bracteole |
| red, often greenish tipped
| glabrous to densely puberulous
| | boat shape
| 2.5 to 4.0 cm | 0.0 to 0.0 cm |
Flower | | | |
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| 0 to 0 cm | 0 to 0 cm |
Calyx | | red | glabrous to densely puberulous
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| lobes triangular
| 1.4 to 1.8 cm | 0.0 to 0.0 cm |
Corolla | tube 20 mm long | white, reddish white or yellowish white | glabrous to densely puberulous
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| lobes narrowly obovate
| 7.0 to 10.0 cm | 0.0 to 0.0 cm |
Labellum | large, spreading limb, lateral lobes usually striped with red, middle lobe reflexed, blotched with yellow to orange in center
| white or yellowish white
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| broadly obovate
| 7.5 to 11.0 cm | 0.0 to 0.0 cm |
Stamen | anther 10-14 mm long
| white to pinkish white |
| | apex obtuse or obscurely 3 lobed
| 4.0 to 6.0 cm | 0.7 to 2.0 cm |