Glomera gastrodiodes Cootes, D. Cabactulan & M.D. De Leon , Orchideen Journal 5(1): 1-15
Type : MDL 008/2017 (holotype, CMUH00010 957)
Growth form Pendulous, sympodial, epiphyte. Rhizome not seen. Roots filiform, long, flexible, glabrous. Stems flattened, rectangular, up to 50 cm in length by 3 mm wide, stems are slightly wrinkled and dried leaf sheaths persistent, with sparsely stellate hairs spreading in the surface. Leaf olive green, somewhat stiff and leathery, adaxially glabrous, abaxially sparsely stellate, linear-lanceolate, subsessile, 3.9-8.0 cm long by 0.50-1.80 cm wide. Inflorescence short, terminally, capitate, bracteate, rachis, 0.40 mm by 1.2 mm in diameter; bearing up to 13 flowers that are conglutinate. Spathe large chartaceous, 2 unequal, 27-nerved, persistent, broadly triangular, concave, abruptly acuminate, adaxially covered by sparsely stellate hairs, abaxially glabrous, 12-14 mm long by 10-14 mm wide; floral bracts thinned, ovate, concave, 3-nerved,apex acuminate, 8.4 mm long by 4.5 mm wide. Flowers petals and sepals white, 4 to 4.5 mm mm across, peduncle, stout, 1 mm long by 1 mm in diameter. Median sepal: thinned, elliptic-ovate, apically slightly recurved 5.5 mm long by 2.4 mm wide, margins entire. Lateral sepals thinned, triangular-ovate, 6.8 mm long by 3.5 mm wide, fused two-thirds of the entire length. Petal elliptic-ovate, margins entire, 5-nerved, 5.5 mm long by 3 mm wide. Lip rectangular anteriorly, conical-saccate posteriorly, adnate to the ovary, 5.2 mm long including the midlobe; midlobe rectangular with a truncate, obtuse apex, 3.8 mm long by 2 mm wide, pointing forwards and downwards. Column trapezoid, 2 mm long by 1.7 mm in diameter, column wings acuminate, 0.5 mm long; column foot adnate to the ovary, white, rectangular, flattened, 3 mm long by 0.5 mm wide. Anther bilaterally ovate, concave, 1 mm long × 1.1 mm wide. Stigma rounded concave, with a prominently elevated rim, about 1.3 to 1.7 mm in diameter; pollinia 2-paired, ovate, 0.6 mm long by 0.45 mm wide. Ovary cylindrical grooved, glabrous, green, 7 mm long by 1.65 mm in diameter. Capsule not seen.
Distribution- The Philippines
Habitat and Ecology - Epiphyte in partial shade in the mossy cloud forests of Bukidnon. Altitude 1,600 m. Flowering season not known
Notes- 1. Flower colors white with red on the lips
2. The epithet gastrodiodes refers to the Gastrodia-like appearance of the fl owers when not fully opened