Monocotyledon | Literature for Spathoglottis plicata
Wagner et al., 1990, 1999; Lorence & Wagner, 2019. |
Orchidaceae -- The Orchid Family | Bibliography |
Spathoglottis plicata | |
Common name(s): Malayan orchid, Philippine ground orchid |
General Information | ||
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Distribution | Native to SE Asia, Malesia, and a few Pacific islands.In the Hawaiian Islands, naturalized on Kaua`i, O`ahu, Moloka`i, Lana`i, Maui, Hawai`i. |
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Habit |
Terrestrial, perennial herb, 3‒15 dm
tall, pseudobulbs crowded along and
obscuring rhizome, ovoid, 2‒4(‒6) cm
long, completely surrounded by the persistent fibrous leaf bases |
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Leaves |
Leaves 2‒6 per pseudobulb, blade conspicuously plicate, linear lanceolate, 20‒150 cm long, (0.8‒)2.5‒8 cm wide, veins conspicuously raised on abaxial surface, margin entire,
base long attenuate, apex narrowly acuminate. |
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Flowers |
Inflorescences erect racemose, arising from the pseudobulb, 1.5-15 dm long.
Flowers dark purple to pale pink or rarely white, bracts green to greenish purple or purple, erect, becoming reflexed with age; sepals and petals similar, spreading, elliptic to elliptic-ovate, 1.5‒2 cm long, apex
acute; labellum distinctly 3-lobed, lateral lobes erect or ascending, linear-obovate, 0.8‒1.2 cm long, middle lobe horizontal or ascending, distinctly clawed, 1.2‒1.5 cm long, calluses 3‒4 mm high, deeply bilobed, lobes bright yellow with pink
markings; column dark purple to pink or white, narrowly clavate, 12‒15 mm long, slightly winged along lateral edges near stigma; rostellum thin, 1‒1.5 mm long. |
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Fruit |
Fruit cylindrical, 6 ribbed, 3.5‒4 cm long. |
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Chromosomes |
2n = 18, 40, 42, 60. |
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Contributor |
David Lorence |