Agrostophyllum saccatilabium Ames & Quisumb. 1932
Flower Drawing TYPE Drawing/photo by © Quisumbing & Ames
Common Name The Sack-Like Lip Agrostophyllum
Flower Size .16 to .24" [4 to 6 mm]
Found in the Philippines as a medium sized, cool growing epiphyte with a rather stout, glabrous, flattened, narrowing at the base stem carrying in the upper part, distichous, narrowly linear-oblong, obtuse, subcoriaceous, narrowing below into the rigid, clasping, jointed base leaves that blooms in the spring on a terminal, capitate, pluribracteate, to [3.5 cm] wide, many flowered inflorescence with very crowded, yellowish flowers.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Complete Writings on Philippine Orchids Vol 1 Quisumbing 1981 drawing/photo fide;
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