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 |
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...base | |
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...apex | | | | |
| 0 to 0 mm | |
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 | | | 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 |