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
| | | 0 to 0 cm | 0 to 15 mm |
Ligule | long, over 15 mm, 2 lobed, unequally and de
| | sparsely puberulous except margins
| | lobes rounded
| 15 to 20 mm | 0 to 0 mm |
Petiole |
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| densely puberulo-sericeous
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| 5 to 15 mm | 0 to 0 mm |
Leaf | 8-10 plicate, costa sericeous upper side to densely sericeous on underside.
| | |
| narrowly elliptic | 35 to 40 cm | 12 to 13 cm |
...upper | |
| glabrous
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...under | |
| sericeous on costa, veins and margins
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...base | |
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| cordate
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...apex | | | | | acuminate
| 0 to 20 mm | |
Inflorescence | terminal on a leafy stem.
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| cylindric
| 0 to 10 cm | 0 to 4 cm |
Bract | callus green, 7-9 mm | dark red
| puberulo-sericeous
| thick, coriaceous
| broadly ovate triangular | 3.0 to 4.0 cm | 2.5 to 3.0 cm |
Appendage | none | |
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| | 0.0 to 0.0 cm | 0.0 to 0.0 cm |
Bracteole |
| red
| puberulous
| | boat shape
| 2.0 to 2.3 cm | 0.0 to 0.0 cm |
Flower | | | |
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| 0 to 0 cm | 0 to 0 cm |
Calyx | | red | sparsely puberulous
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| 1.0 to 1.3 cm | 0.6 to 0.8 cm |
Corolla | tube 13-20mm | | glabrous
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| 0.0 to 0.0 cm | 0.0 to 0.0 cm |
Labellum | lateral lobes involute and forming a tube ca 12 mm diam.
| yellow
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| oblong-ovate
| 4.0 to 4.3 cm | 2.5 to 2.7 cm |
Stamen | anther 10-11 mm by 4 mm
| yellow |
| | apex slightly rounded
| 3.5 to 4.0 cm | 1.1 to 1.2 cm |