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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| glabrous to sparsely strigulose or villose
| | | 0 to 0 cm | 8 to 20 mm |
Ligule |
| | glabrous
| | truncate
| 1 to 5 mm | 0 to 0 mm |
Petiole |
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| glabrous
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| 10 to 20 mm | 0 to 0 mm |
Leaf | 20-26 cm long, 4-9 cm wide
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| narrowly elliptic | 20 to 26 cm | 4 to 9 cm |
...upper | |
| glabrous with scattered hairs at apex and margins
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...under | |
| glabrous
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...base | |
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| cuneate
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...apex | | | | | shortly acuminate
| 0 to 0 mm | |
Inflorescence | Basal - on a separate leafless shoot about 50 cm tall
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| ovoid, obtuse
| 9 to 10 cm | 5 to 7 cm |
Bract | not velutinous, margins not delacerating into fibers, callus 4-7 mm long or inconspicuous | red to reddish brown
| glabrous
| coriaceous
| broadly ovate, obtuse | 3.5 to 4.5 cm | 2.0 to 4.0 cm |
Appendage | none | |
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| | 0.0 to 0.0 cm | 0.0 to 0.0 cm |
Bracteole |
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| glabrous
| margins entire or delacerating into fibers | boat shape
| 2.8 to 3.0 cm | 0.0 to 0.0 cm |
Flower | | | |
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| 0 to 0 cm | 0 to 0 cm |
Calyx | 10-19 mm long | red | glabrous
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| lobes deltate to shallowly triangular
| 1.0 to 1.3 cm | 0.6 to 0.8 cm |
Corolla | | yellow | glabrous
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| 0.0 to 7.0 cm | 0.0 to 0.0 cm |
Labellum |
| reddish brown
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| large spreading
| 5.0 to 6.0 cm | 5.0 to 6.0 cm |
Stamen | anther 7 mm long
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| | narrowly elliptic
| 0.0 to 5.0 cm | 0.0 to 1.0 cm |