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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| strigose, hirsute or glabrescent
| | | 0 to 0 cm | 15 to 20 mm |
Ligule |
| | like sheaths on margins
| | truncate to obliquely truncate
| 5 to 10 mm | 0 to 0 mm |
Petiole |
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| densely strigose to hirsute
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| 5 to 15 mm | 0 to 0 mm |
Leaf |
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| narrowly elliptic to narrowly obovate | 13 to 25 cm | 4 to 8 cm |
...upper | |
| glabrous, strigose costa & margins
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...under | |
| densely strigose
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...base | |
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| cunate to rounded
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...apex | | | | | shortly acuminate
| 0 to 0 mm | |
Inflorescence |
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| ovoid to broadly ovoid, acute or obtuse
| 4 to 11 cm | 4 to 7 cm |
Bract | margins entire or erose, callus yellow inconspicuous | orange-red to scarlet
| exposed glabrous to densly strigose, covered glabr
| coriaceous
| ovate to ovate-triangular, acute or obtuse | 3.5 to 5.0 cm | 2.0 to 3.0 cm |
Appendage | | |
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| | 0.0 to 0.0 cm | 0.0 to 0.0 cm |
Bracteole |
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| sparsely strigulose
| | 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 | | | glabrous to sparsely strigulose
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| lobes shallowly triangular
| 1.0 to 1.4 cm | 0.0 to 0.0 cm |
Corolla | | yellow |
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| 0.0 to 3.0 cm | 0.0 to 0.0 cm |
Labellum |
| yellow
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| 0.0 to 3.0 cm | 0.0 to 0.0 cm |
Stamen |
| yellow |
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| 0.0 to 3.0 cm | 0.0 to 0.0 cm |