Flora of Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
9239 Orchidaceae 
Calanthe (Styloglossum group) cf. stenophylla 
Southern Highlands Province; Kutubu district, swamp forest adjacent to 
Waro and Ubogo villages, NE towards the low ridge, elev. 425 m in 
Metroxylon-dominant swamp, canopy somewhat open, lat. 6 deg. 32’ S x 
long. 143 deg. 12’ E. 
w. 9228; terrestrial acaulescent herb; leaves rosetted, assurgent, 
somewhat fleshy, plicate, glabrous, adaxial side dark dull green x 
abaxially lighter green, lamina linear-elliptic, typical blade 60 x 2 cm, apex 
attenuate, base decurrent and clasping; fruits not seen; inflorescence 
scapose, erect from the side of the abbreviated pseudobulb; scape light 
green, terete, c. 30 cm long, bracteate; the bracts sheathing, chaffy, 
green or brown; pedicels and flowers entirely white; petals/sepals 
conform, subequal; iabellum oblong with 2 divaricate lateral lobes, basal 
spur approx, as long as the pedicel. 
flowers bottled at A. 
coll. W. Takeuchi 9239 
date: Sept. 14, 1993 
det.: N.H.S. Howcroft 
Flora of Papua New Guinea 
Lae National Herbarium 
9241 Orchidaceae 
Dipodium pandanum Bail. 
Southern Highlands Province; Kutubu district, swamp forest adjacent to 
Waro and Ubogo villages, NE towards the low ridge, elev. 425 m in 
Metroxylon-dominant swamp, canopy somewhat open, lat. 6 deg. 32’ S x 
long. 143 deg. 12’ E. 
w. 9228; robust climber on tree trunks/stumps on swampy ground, 
monopodial, the thick stems completely obscured by the leaf bases; 
leaves alternate, distichous, obliquely spreading, firm, concolorously light 
green both surfaces, glabrous, lamina linear, to slightly > 40 x 5 cm, apex 
long attenuate to an acute point, base expanded and clasping, collectively 
equitant; venation pluricostate, parallel, costae expressed as prominent 
ribs especially nr the leaf base; inflorescence racemose, lateral, 
ascending to >50 cm length; peduncle stout, glabrous, yellow-green, 
bearing large triangular bracts at intervals; rachis similar, with smaller and 
narrower bractlets subtending each flower; flowers showy, long- 
pedicellate (c. 4 cm); perianth spreading, white with reddish-purple spots 
on the back of the segments; sepals linear-oblanceolate, conform and 
equal; petals similar but slightly narrowed; Iabellum directed straight away 
from the ovary, lateral lobes basiscopic the upper side thus somewhat 
keeled, hairs white and spreading; column parallel with the L., half its 
length, apex white otherwise the column entirely yellow; pollinia 2, with 
white translucent stipes. 
flowers bottled at A. 
coll. W. Takeuchi 9241 
date: Sept. 14, 1993 
