Species Information - Spathoglottis parviflora

Spathoglottis parviflora Kraenzl., Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 16 (1892) 18, 13

Type: Hellwig 328 (holo B, lost)

Synonyms:

• Spathoglottis alpina R.S.Rogers, Trans. & Proc. Roy. Soc. South Australia 54 (1930) 38
  - Type: Lane-Poole 529
• Spathoglottis curvatocallosa Gilli, Ann. Naturhist. Mus. Wien 84/B (1983) 41, fig. 32
  - Type: Gilli 282 (holo W)
• Spathoglottis montana P.Royen, Alp. Fl. New Guinea 2 (1979) 152, fig. 62
  - Type: ANU (Wheeler) 6382 (holo CANB)
• Spathoglottis obovata J.J.Sm., Bull. Dép. Agric. Indes Néerl. 39 (1910) 20
  - Type: Rñvon 758
• Spathoglottis oreophila Ridl., Trans. Linn. Soc. London, Bot. 9 (1916) 203
  - Type: Kloss s.n. (Camp 9 to 11, 5500 to 8300 ft.) (holo BM)
• Spathoglottis umbraticola Garay, Harvard Pap. Bot. 4 (1999) 312
  - Type: Levy 7364a (holo AMES)

Rhizome very short. Pseudobulbs clustered, 3-5-leaved, ovoid to conical, small, c. 2 by 1.25 cm, covered with the persistent fibrous leaf-sheaths; internodes regularly spaced. Leaves petiolate; petiole 1-9 cm long, 0.2-0.5 cm wide when flattened; blade narrowly elliptic-lanceolate, 12-31.5 by 0.4-1.2 cm, firm, apex acuminate. Inflorescences racemose, erect, to 60 cm long; peduncle to 18.5-51 cm long, 0.2-0.4 cm diam.; peduncle-scales 2-4; rachis usually shorter than peduncle, puberulous, few- to several-flowered. Floral bracts loosely spreading to deflexed, ovate to ovate-lanceolate, 0.9-2.9 by 0.4-1.25 cm, puberulous. Pedicel with ovary with dense short hairs. Flowers c. 2.5 cm diam. Median sepal elliptic to oblong-obtuse, to 1.8 by 0.8 cm, pubescent outside. Lateral sepals elliptic, to 1.8 by 0.55 cm, keeled and pubescent outside. Petals elliptic to ovate, to 1.7 by 0.8 cm, glabrous, apex obtuse. Lip 3-lobed, 1.1-1.25 by 1.4-1.8 cm between tips of lateral lobes when flattened; callus deeply bilobed, lobes apically semi-circular and somewhat rounded, 0.03-0.18 cm tall, 0.15-0.35 cm wide, with few apical hairs, laterally at the base and in front of the base pubescent; lateral lobes making an angle ofless than 90 degrees with the mid-lobe, narrowly falcate-oblong, 0.8-0.9 cm long, at base 0.4-0.5 cm wide, apex obtuse; mid-lobe 1 cm long, not clawed, spathulate to flabelliform, 0.4-0.5 cm wide at the base, 1 cm wide at broadest part, apex truncate, emarginate or subobtuse. Column erect, slightly curved, 0.8 cm long. Fruit cylindrical, 2-3 cm long, 0.9-1 cm, diam., pubescent to glabrescent (After Howcroft, 1992).

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