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4. Scaphochlamys minutiflora Jenjitt. & K.Larsenwfo-0000525365

Nordic J. Bot. 22: 35. 2002; Newman et al., Blumea, Suppl. 16: 148. 2004.

Accepted Name : This is currently accepted.

Description : Perennial, tufted herb, to 30 cm tall; rhizomes short, creeping. Bladeless sheaths 2–3; leaves 2–3 per shoot; ligule bilobed, rounded-triangular, ca 1 by 0.5 cm, wing-like at base; blades oblanceolate, 22–35 by 7–11 cm, above glossy green with grooved midvein, pale green below, appressed white hairy along either side of midvein, base cuneate, apex acute; petiole 12–24 cm long, grooved. Inflorescence: peduncles to 15 cm long; bracts spirally arranged, densely imbricate, lanceolate-triangular, apex acute, margin wavy, crisped, pale green, each bract subtending 2 flowers; bracteoles lanceolate. Flowers sessile; ovary ellipsoid, ca 2 by 1 mm, yellowish, pilose; stigma semicircular, densely ciliate; epigynous glands linear, ca 2 mm long, yellowish; calyx ca 6 mm long, split on one side, pilose outside, apex acute; floral tube 1.5 cm long, white, glabrous, dorsal corolla lobe oblong, ca 4.5 by 1.5 mm, white, glabrous, apex rounded, lateral corolla lobes narrowly oblong, ca 5 by 1.5 mm, white, apex rounded and hooded; lateral staminodes narrowly triangular, 1.5–2 by 0.5–0.7 mm, white, glabrous; labellum ca 5 by 3–5 mm, proximal part oblong, ca 2 mm wide, white with V-shaped purplish band, distal part subcircular, ca 3 by 5 mm, shallowly bilobed, white, sparsely pubescent; stamen: filament ca 1 mm; anther ca 3 by 1 mm, white, with a shallow hole behind apex of each pollen sac, anther crest 0.5 mm long with rounded, wavy or emarginate apex. Fruit not seen.

Thailand : PENINSULAR: Narathiwat (type: Tiptabiankarn 4407, holotype -AAU, isotype BKF).

Distribution : Endemic.

Ecology : By small streams in evergreen forests, ca 200 m alt.

Vernacular : Kalong noi (กาหลงน้อย).

Notes: This species has bracts with crisped margins, as in Scaphochlamys erecta Holttum and S. klossii (Ridl.) Holttum but differs in having 2–3 leaves per shoot while S. erecta and S. klossii have more than 4.