DISTRIBUTIONThe species is known to have occurrence records in these countries.
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DESCRIPTION (FROM THE ORIGINAL JOURNAL)Plants about 6 dm. high, leafy at the base. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, acute, about 2 dm. long, about 3 cm. wide. Floral bracts lanceolate, acuminate, very acute, 1.5-2 cm. long, shorter than the ovary. Ovary 3 cm. long, narrowed above into an elongated, slender neck. Flowers greenish, doorless, in an elongated loose raceme. lateral sepals somewhat elliptical, deflexed, 1 cm. long. Upper sepal strongly concave, 1.4 cm. long. Petals 1.4 cm. long 1 mm wide, simple, linear above the dilated base, where they are 2.5 mm. wide and anteriorly protuberant. Labellum about 1.2 cm. long simple, strongly deflexed beyond the middle, caudate-tipped. Spur about 2 cm. long, very slender above the middle, strongly incurved and dilated-clavate toward the apex, resembling somewhat the abdomen of an ichneumon fly (Ophion purgatus). Anther canals much exceeding the stigmatic processes.
Terrestrial in humid forest at 400 ft. alt. along the Alag River, Nov 5, 1906, Merrill (No. 5803) ---Ames Philippine Journal of Science 2: 312. 1907 |