Microcoelia leptostele (Summerh.) L.Jonss. 1981
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Found in the Central African Republic, Zaïre and Angola in primary forests and Coffee platations at elevations under 500 meters as a warm growing epiphyte with an often short, but rarely up to .8" [2 cm] long, few-branched stems with the apex covered with scarious, acute, overlapping cataphylls that blooms in the spring on a pendent, to 2" [5 cm] long, 4 to 7 flowered inflorescence with subacute, , much shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carryingf patent, white, subhyaline flowers.
"The new species differs from M macrorrhynchium , in the details of the floral parts, particularily in the column. In E. macrorrhynchium this is short and stout with the long sword-shaped rostellum arising from its apex just below the androclinium. In the present species, however, the column is ,ong and slender in the upper part, the rostellum, almost identical in shape with that in the other species, arising from the base of the slender portion. Associated differences are the long appendage to the anther, designed to cover part of the stipes of the pollinium, and the much longer stipes, which is bent in the middle at the point of juncture of the column and rostellum. The viscidium is also much larger in E. leptostele but the pollinarium in general structure agrees well with that in M macrorhynchium." Summerhayes 1954
Synonyms Encheiridion leptostele Summerh. 1953 publ. 1954; Microcoelia leptostele subsp. cordatilabia Szlach. & Olszewski 2001
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Kew Bull. 8: 588 Summerhayes 1953 publ. 1954 as Encheiridion leptostele
* Symb. Bot. Upsal. 23: 127 Jonss. 1981
Fl. Cameroun 36: 794 Szlach 2001 as Microcoelia leptostele subsp. cordatilabia
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