Gingersrus Database Taxon ID 7506Tapeinochilos novaebudaensisOLD NAME: Tapeinochilos novaebudaensis NEW NAME: Tapeinochilos novaebudaensis NAME CHANGE NOTES: FULL SCIENTIFIC NAME: STATUS : unknown CONTINENT: Malanesian FIELD OBSERVATIONS:(If field observations are available, you can click on the link to open in a new window.) PHOTOS:(If photos are available, you can click on the link to open in a new window.) SYNONYMS: BOTANICAL NOTES: Osia Gideon Monograph: Listed as a terminal flowering species with recurved bracts, dark red, aging grey to black, apex obtuse or rounded-apiculate, margins toward apex not inflexed. Bract apex obtuse, not pungent. Anterior lobe 7-10 by 7-9 mm, capsule with 25-40 seeds per fruit; labellum 9-13 mm long, floral tube 11-13 mm long, endemic to the New Hebrides (Vanuatu). Not on the Plant List as an accepted species name. Listed by Osia Gideon in his plant key. There is a similar name T. novobudiense from Alan Carle on the Lyon PDF file at the Heliconia Society International website under the name T. salomonensis.
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