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 |
| | glabrous
| thin, scarious | biloged, obtuse apices
| 13 to 25 mm | 0 to 0 mm |
Petiole |
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| 4 to 6 mm | 0 to 0 mm |
Leaf |
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| elliptic | 0 to 30 cm | 0 to 7 cm |
...upper | |
| glabrous
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...under | |
| a few hairs on margin
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...base | |
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| cunate or rounded
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...apex | | | | | acuminate
| 0 to 0 mm | |
Inflorescence | terminal
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| 0 to 0 cm | 0 to 0 cm |
Bract | |
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| | 0.0 to 0.0 cm | 0.0 to 0.0 cm |
Appendage | progressively smaller to absent at top | |
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| | 0.0 to 9.0 cm | 0.0 to 3.5 cm |
Bracteole |
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| | boat shaped, bifid at apex
| 2.0 to 0.0 cm | 0.7 to 0.0 cm |
Flower | one per bract | | |
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| 0 to 0 cm | 0 to 0 cm |
Calyx | | |
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| 2.0 to 0.0 cm | 0.0 to 0.0 cm |
Corolla | | white |
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| 4.0 to 0.0 cm | 1.5 to 0.0 cm |
Labellum |
| white, yellow center
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| broadly obovate, 4 lobed
| 6.0 to 0.0 cm | 4.5 to 0.0 cm |
Stamen | anthers 8-9 mm
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| | petaloid, ovate, apex obtuse
| 3.2 to 0.0 cm | 1.0 to 0.0 cm |