Tropidia kjellbergii Ormerod & Juswara 2020<

PARATYPE Collection Sheet by © Misra

EARLY

Common Name Kjellberg's Tropidia [Swedish botanist G.K. Kjellberg (1885-1943), collector of the type]

Flower Size

Found in Sulawesi at elevations around 700 meters as a medium sized, warm growing terrestrial with an errect, caespitose, laxly few branched, each branch 3 to 4 leaves, each branch to 12" [30 cm] long, 24" [60 cm] long overall stem carrying ligulatE-lanceolate to lanceolate, subcaudate-subacuminate apically, gramineous, 3 to 5 veined leaves that blooms in the early spring on an axillary, .64 to .84" [1.6 to 2.1 cm] long overall, peduncle .32" [8 mm] long, provided with 2 sheaths, rachis [1.3 cm] long, successively 6 to more flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acute, longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying flowers with the outer surface laxly furfuraceous.

"Tropidia kjellbergii is most similar to T. curculigoides in habit (laxly 2-3 branched stems, each branch with a few leaves in the upper half), but the former differs in having lamellate (vs. low ridges, or very low lamellae) in the labellum hypochile that converge on the base of the epichile and then diverge (vs. parallel ridges on the epichile). T curculigoides has 8 to 11 leaved stems, but the labellum is subpandurate with lamellate keels that are parallel on the epichile (vs. rhombic with diverging keels). T mindorensis has 13 to 14 leaved stems, and the labellum has lamellate keels that meet and diverge on the epichile. However the labellum hypochile is subpandurate (vs. rhombic), and the epichile is elliptic and concave (vs. ovate, subacute)." Ormerod & Juswara 2020

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Harvard Pap. Bot. 25: 153 Ormerod & Juswara 2020

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