Taeniophyllum pyriforme Schuit., Juswara & Droissart 2016 SUBGENUS Taeniophyllum SECTION Loboglossum Schlechter
Photos by Vincent Droissart/TYPE Drawing Judi Stone and PhytoKeys. (61): 47–59.; Four new orchid species from the Lengguru fold belt, West Papua, Indonesia Lina Juswara, André Schuiteman and Vincent Droissart 2016
Common Name or Meaning The Pear-Shaped Taeniophyllum [ Refers to the spur shape]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm] high
Found in Papua New Guinea in submontane forest on a sparsely moss-covered tree trunk at elevations around 1114 meters as a small to medium sized, cool growing epiphyte with a very short leafless stem giving rise to spreading, green, flattened, not branching, up to at least 14" [35 cm] long, .06 to .12" [1.5 to 3 mm] wide roots with some of the roots closely appressed to the bark of the tree, others free hanging that blooms in the spring on c. 3, producing flowers at the same time, suberect, 2 to 2.4" [5 to 6 cm] long, peduncle filiform, rather sparsely muricate with c. .12" [0.3 mm] long projections, near the middle with a very small peduncle-scale; rachis distichous, glabrous, successively one or two at a time, gradually elongating, up to .22 to .56" [11 to 14 mm] long, c. 16-flowered inflorescence with cupular, in lateral view triangular, subacute, successive bracts on the same side of the rachis floral bracts and carrying non-resupinate flowers.
"This inconspicuous but distinctive species would seem to fit best in section Loboglossum, on account of the clearly lobed lip, elongate inflorescence, distichous rachis, and glabrous ovary. However, a muricate inflorescence has not been reported for this section before (although the otherwise very different Taeniophyllum toranum J.J.Sm. is described as having a furfuraceous-punctate peduncle and rachis, while the no less distinct Taeniophyllum pulvinatum is said to have a minutely glandulose peduncle). The basal, hook-like lobules on the lip are also unique." Schuit., Juswara & Droissart 2016
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * PhytoKeys. (61): 47–59.; Four new orchid species from the Lengguru fold belt, West Papua, Indonesia Lina Juswara, André Schuiteman and Vincent Droissart 2016 photo/drawing fide;
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