Glomera amboinensis (Ridl.) J.J.Sm.

Glomera amboinensis (Ridl.) J.J.Sm., Bull. Dép. Agric. Indes Néerl. 15: 28(1908)

Glossorhyncha amboinensis Ridl., J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 28:342 (1891)

Dendrobium coccineum Kraensl. In H.G.A. Engler (ed.), Pflanzenr., IV, 50 II B 21:129 (1910)

Glomera amboinensis var. buruensis J.J.Sm., Bull. Jard. Bot. Buitenzorg, 3(9):459 (1928) - Type : E. Stresseman 401 (holotype, L), Indonesia

Glomera amboinensis var. seramica J.J.Sm., Bull. Jard. Bot. Buitenzorg, 3(10):132 (1928) - Type : L. Rutten 2254 (holotype, L), Seram Island

Coelandria coccinea (Kraenzl.) M.A. Clem., Telopea 10:298 (2003)

 

 

Growth form Epiphyte, up to 40 cm high, 0.15 cm wide. Rhizome ca. 2-3 mm in diameter. Roots filiform, up to 41 mm long, flexible, glabrous. Stem branched, cylindrical, proliferously leafed, internodes 0.3-2.5 cm long. Leaf patent, almost linear, distichous, carnose-coriaceous; apex obtuse or unequally 2-lobed; base narrowed; lamina 1.65-2.10 cm long, 0.23-0.35 cm wide, brown spots on both sides; sheath tightly clasping the stem, dark brown, prominently warty; apex toothed, with bristled margin, bristle 0.5 mm long. Inflorescences one-flowered, when young enveloped by a spathe. Spathe ovate, transparent, with brown blotch; apex subacuminate-acute, 0.75-1.1 cm long, 3.8-5.2 mm wide; floral bracts ovate, thin, transparent, with dark brown blotch; apex acute, 6.6-8.2 mm long, 4.5-5.4 mm wide. Flower upright, 2.5 cm across, widely opening. Median sepal lanceolate, 1.1-1.65 cm long, 3.8-4.8 mm wide; apex apiculate, base decurrent. Lateral sepal free, oblique lanceolate, somewhat falcate, adnate to the column, 8-10 mm long, 3.3-4.5 mm wide, 5-nerved; apex obtuse, apiculate, with subulate, verruculose-denticulate apiculum; base rounded-dilated, clasping the base of spur. Petal elliptic, 5-nerved, 9.5-16.5 mm long, 4-7.5 mm wide; apex obtuse; base wedge-shaped oblique. Lip subobovate-semiorbicular, concave, adnate to the column, 3.5-4 mm long, 3.6-5.2 mm wide; epichile lobe obtuse, darker colored but without glandular cells; hypochile thickened, spurred; spur linear, rather slender, straight, dorsally compressed, 5.5-9 mm long; apex obtuse. Column much thickened at apex, 2-2.5 mm long, with column foot; clinandrium tridentate; stelidia linear, obtuse; rostellum broad, rounded, apex rounded-notched to bilobulate; stigma transverse, crescent-shaped, lower magin much prolonged, rounded. Anther  cucullate, transversely elliptic, apex truncate, base emarginated, 1.5 mm wide; pollinia unequally oblong-pyriform; viscidium present. Ovary cylindric, 7.5 mm long, glabrous. Capsule not seen.

Distribution – Moluccas, Indonesia

Habitat and Ecology - Epiphyte in the montane forest on Mt. Makina and Mt. Toga. Altitude 200-1200 m. Flowering in January and May in the wild.

Notes - 1. Flowers yellowish white with small black patch on the tip of the lip

3. The epithet amboinensis refers to the location where the specimen was found.

4. Specimens observed: L 0061316 (TYPE G. seramica); L 0043490 (TYPE G. buruensis); L 0324473 ; L0324471

5. L 0324473 (Moluccas) is similar to the type description but with a slightly different shaped lip (acuminate instead of ovate),  L 0324471 (Bismarck Islands) has a longer spathe, floral bract, ovary and spur and the apex of the lip is much more thickened and ornamented with  brown glandular cells.

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