Orchidaceae
Sarmenticola calceolaris (Garay) Sengh. & Garay
Kingdom: Plantae Rank: Species Parent: Sarmenticola Status: Invalid Reason: unverified
Vegetative Morphology
Habit: Fan-shaped epiphytes to 4 cm tall excluding the inflorescences.
Leaves: Leaves bilaterally compressed, lanceolate, acute, to 3 x 0.4 cm.
Reproductive Morphology
Inflorescence: Inflorescences pedunculate racemes, to 6 cm long, the peduncle to 5 cm long, with two remote bracts, the rachis subcapitate, cone-like, to 1 cm long.
Flowers: Flowers small, solitary, produced successively, presumably whitish-yellow. Dorsal sepal ovate-oblong, obtuse, 7.5 x 2.5 mm, the lateral sepals linear-oblong, falcate, obtuse, 9 x 1.5 mm. Petals oblanceolate, subacute, minutely keeled apically, 8 x 1.5 mm. Lip unlobed, ovate, ca. 5 x 5 mm, the lateral margins involute, the apex deflexed, with an erect rounded keel below the apex. Column 3.5 mm long.