Taeniophyllum toranum J.J.Sm., Nova Guinea 12, 4 (1916) 465, pl. 180, fig. 336
Type: Gjellerup 652 (holo BO)
Stem short, enveloped in appressed, c. 1 cm long fibres. Roots creeping, linear, 25 cm long, to 0.35 cm wide. Inflorescences erect; peduncle filiform, angular, furfuraceous-punctate with c. 4 very small peduncle-scales; rachis flexuose, quadrangular, furfuraceous-punctate, 2.4 cm long, internodes 0.15 cm long. Floral bracts distichous, patent, triangular, conduplicate-concave, keeled, with the laterally flattened, acute keel overtopping the apex, furfuraceous-punctate, dorsally 0.14 cm long. Sepals and petals divergent. Median sepal linear-lanceolate, long acuminate, concave, 3-nerved, to 1.6 cm long, almost 0.3 cm wide. Lateral sepals obliquely linear-lanceolate, gradually acuminate, concave-channelled, 3-nerved, 1.3 by 0.28 cm. Petals obliquely elliptic-lanceolate, long caudate-acuminate, concave, in the apical part with incurved margins, ciliolate, 3-nerved, 1.4 by 0.35 cm. Lip 3-lobed, spurred, concave, without calli, when flattened oblong-ovate in outline (without spur), long acuminate, 1.2 cm long, to the tips of the lateral lobes 0.34 cm long, 0.44 cm wide across the lateral lobes; lateral lobes erect, much surpassing the column, concave, short, broad, slightly rounded, slightly extending in front, obtuse; mid-lobe large, 0.9 by 0.43 cm, at the base ovate, apical part long laterally flattened-acuminate, the apex shaped like a curved knife, acute, in the basal part concave; spur pointing backwards, making an acute angle with the ovary, slightly incurved-falcate, laterally flattened, the sides with a longitudinal concavity, in the apical part in front obliquely clavate-widened, obtuse, 0.4 cm long, at the apex 0.23 cm high. Column very short, dorsally convex, 0.13 cm long; clinandrium concave; rostellum large, bipartite, the two segments parallel, falcate-incurved, triangular. Anther cucullate, at the apex shortly acuminate and slightly recurved, obtuse, on either side with a minute tooth. Pollinia obliquely elliptic; stipe strongly spathulate-dilated, 0.1 cm long; viscidium lanceolate. Ovary pedicellate, 6-grooved, especially in the grooves furfuraceous, 0.6 cm long. (After Smith, 1916)
Colours: Flower light yellow.
Habitat: Epiphyte in lowland forest; 25 m.
Flowering time in the wild: October.
Distribution: Malesia (New Guinea).
Distribution in New Guinea: Papua (Indonesia). See map: 676-204M.JPG.
Cultivation: Warm growing epiphyte.