Curup Kami : Cylindrolobus mucronatus (Lindl.) Rauschert, Feddes Repert. 94: 445 (1983).

Plant erect and spreding, to 1 m tall, the many stem not branched, pendulous, bearing many leaves, fleshy,terete but flatterned a little near the apex. Leaves spreading, lanceolate to strap-shape, long-acute, narrowed basally, globrous, fleshy and though in texture, 5.5-12 cm long by 6-10 mm abroad below middle. inflorescences lateral,short and usually with two flowers, with about 5 spreading. red floral bracts at the base which are shorter than the ovary. 

• Flower large for the section but not opening widely, white with some yellow on the sepals;
• dorsal sepal oblong and obtuse, about 2 cm, about 2 cm long by 8 mm broad;
• lateral sepal falcate-triangular, obtuse, 1.9 cm long, broadened at the base to form a very obtuse mentum which is 1.2 cm long;
• petals obovate, truncate and apiculate, 1.9 cm long;
• lips short, almost kidney-shaped at the base, trilobed in the middle, glabrous, the side lobes erect and almost semi-circular, the mid-lobe much smaller and shortly bilobed, with a keel from the lip base to half-way along  the mid-lobe and a shorter one running parallel on either side, the lip in all 1.1 cm long by 1.5 cm  broad across the side lobes, the mid-lobe 5 mm;
• column thick and 7 mm long, there is a curious callus on the column foot which is covered with orange, club-shaped papillae.

Name Overview: Cylindrolobus mucronatus (Lindl.) Rauschert, Feddes Repert. 94: 445 (1983).

Distribution: Thailand to W. Malesia 41 THA 42 BOR MLY SUM

Lifeform: Pseudobulb epiphyte

Family: Orchidaceae

Original Compiler: R.Govaerts

Synonyms (https://wcsp.science.kew.org)

Homotypic Names: 

• Eria mucronata Lindl., Edwards's Bot. Reg. 28(Misc.): 25 (1842). (Basionym/Replaced Synonym)
• Pinalia mucronata (Lindl.) Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 678 (1891).
• Trichotosia mucronata (Lindl.) Kraenzl. in H.G.A.Engler (ed.), Pflanzenr., IV, 50(50): 157 (1911).

Heterotypic Synonyms:(https://wcsp.science.kew.org)

• Eria elongata Blume, Mus. Bot. 2: 183 (1856).
• Eria rigida Blume, Mus. Bot. 2: 183 (1856).
• Dendrobium macranthum de Vriese ex Lindl., J. Proc. Linn. Soc., Bot. 3: 59 (1858), not validly publ.
• Pinalia elongata (Blume) Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 678 (1891).
• Pinalia rigida (Blume) Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 679 (1891).
• Eria pendula Ridl., J. Straits Branch Roy. Asiat. Soc. 39: 78 (1903).
• Eria rhodobractea Schltr., Beibl. Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 104: 36 (1911).
• Trichotosia elongata (Blume) Kraenzl. in H.G.A.Engler (ed.), Pflanzenr., IV, 50(50): 150 (1911).
• Trichotosia pendula (Ridl.) Kraenzl. in H.G.A.Engler (ed.), Pflanzenr., IV, 50(50): 173 (1911).
• Trichotosia rigida (Blume) Kraenzl. in H.G.A.Engler (ed.), Pflanzenr., IV, 50(50): 160 (1911).
• Cylindrolobus rigidus (Blume) Brieger in F.R.R.Schlechter, Orchideen Beschreib. Kult. Zücht., ed. 3, 1(11-12): 664 (1981).
• Cylindrolobus rhodobracteus (Schltr.) Rauschert, Feddes Repert. 94: 445 (1983).

This name is not Accepted by:(https://wcsp.science.kew.org)

• Govaerts, R. (1999). World Checklist of Seed Plants 3(1, 2a & 2b): 1-1532. MIM, Deurne. [as Eria mucronata]
• Govaerts, R. (2003). World Checklist of Monocotyledons Database in ACCESS: 1-71827. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. [as Eria mucronata]

Notes:

• this specimens collected from Rejang Lebong, Bengkulu Province, Indonesia
• "This species has been called E .rigida BL. in most accounts, Lindley's earlier naming having been overlooked until noted by Seidenfaden &J.J Wood in "The orchids of Peninsular Malaysia and Singapore" ( 1992 ). Schlechter noted that his E. rhodobractea differed from E. rigida in the lip, but this didifference has not been upheld by subsequent authors" ( Orchid of Sumatra, JB.Comber)

November 20, 2020