| Field notes | Terrestial herb in dense clump ( 5-20 cm between neighbouring shoots). Leafy shoots 2-3.5 m long. Base 5-8 cm, pale pink to pale brown. Sheath green. Ligulle truncate to slightly emarginate, brown. Petiole to 15 mm long. Lamina to 66 x 19 cm, narrowly ovate, slightly plicate, plastic like texture, base rounded, apex acute, margin yellowish orange. Inflorescence terminal appearing to 30 cm below apex, enclosed by 3 bracts: to 40 cm long, yellow with pointed green tips to 18 cm. Inflorescence below plane of distichy of leaves, eventually becoming pendulous, with at least 400 flowers, many open at the same time, before bracts are shed, starting from base. Peduncle reddish. Ovary orange-yellow with reddish tinge. Calyx brownish purple. Corolla lobes dark purple. Labellum pale purple, central lobe darker, bidentate. Stamen purple. Stigma pale orange-red. Fruits orange-red, smooth, shiny, splitting in 3, pyriform, calyx and corolla +/- persistent, brown. Seeds brown. Material in spirit. DNA sampled. |
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