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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| 0 to 0 cm | 0 to 0 mm |
| Ligule |
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| same as sheath
| truncate
| 5 to 10 mm | 0 to 0 mm |
| Petiole |
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| 0 to 0 mm | 0 to 0 mm |
| Leaf | Base of stems leafless sheaths, then normally developed leaves, lanceolate, shortly petiolate, smaller at two extremities.
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| 0 to 25 cm | 0 to 8 cm |
| ...upper |
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| ...under |
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| ...base |
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| ...apex |
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| 0 to 0 mm |
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| Inflorescence | Basal - radical, directly from rhizome, flowering sheath of variable length (sometimes blooms terminally on leafy stem)
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| globulous
| 0 to 0 cm | 0 to 4 cm |
| Bract |
| green or blotched with red
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| 2.0 to 2.5 cm | 0.0 to 0.0 cm |
| Appendage |
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| 0.0 to 0.0 cm | 0.0 to 0.0 cm |
| Bracteole | provided with a streamlined bracteole, lightly flaciforme and carrying a callous appendix towards the apex
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| carinate
| 0.0 to 1.8 cm | 0.0 to 0.0 cm |
| Flower | single flower per bract
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| 0 to 0 cm | 0 to 0 cm |
| Calyx |
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| glabrous
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| 3 lobed
| 1.0 to 1.5 cm | 0.0 to 0.0 cm |
| Corolla |
| white tinged with yellow
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| 0.0 to 0.0 cm | 0.0 to 0.0 cm |
| Labellum |
| white tinged with yellow
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| 6.0 to 7.0 cm | 0.0 to 0.0 cm |
| Stamen |
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| 0.0 to 0.0 cm | 0.0 to 0.0 cm |
