The New Refugium Botanicum. Trichotosia velutina
Resumen
Trichotosia velutina (Lodd. ex Lindl.)
Kraenzl., Pflanzenr. IV, 50(50): 140. 1911.
Basionym: Eria velutina Lodd. ex Lindl.,
Edwards’s Bot. Reg. 26: Misc. 86. 1840.
Syn.: Pinalia velutina (Lodd. ex Lindl.)
Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 679. 1891.
Type: Singapore. “[...] Brought to Messrs.
Loddiges [...] by Mr. Cuming, H. Cuming s.n.
(K). Heterotypic synonyms: Dendrobium
sessile Gagnep. Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist.
Nat., sér. 2, 22: 396. 1950. Syntypes:
Cochinchina. Ile de Phu-cuoq: Duong-dang,
E. Poilane 27279 (P); Bien-hoa, E. Poilane
19726 (P). Eria monticola var. hirsuta Hook.
f., Fl. Brit. India 5: 806. 1890. Type: India.
Perak, E. Scortechini s.n. (BM).
Epiphytic, caespitose, large herb
forming clumps, up to 100 cm tall. Roots
produced from the rhizome, mostly at
the base of the stems, branching, hairy,
orange-brown, 1 mm in diameter. Rhizome
slender, creeping, freely branching, 0.8–2.0
cm long between stems, concealed by
appressed, imbricating, hairy sheaths.
Stems foliaceous, born erect to patent,
becoming pendent with age, the apex
frequently spreading-suberect, to 100
cm long, 5–7 mm in diameter, terete,
the internodes 2.3–6.0 cm long, covered
with densely hirsute leaf-sheaths,
with 6–12 distichous leaves. Leaves
conduplicate, elliptic-lanceolate, acute,
fleshy-coriaceous, 9–13 × 2.0–2.5 cm, the
midvein strongly prominent abaxially, grass
green, covered by dense, short, red-brown
hairs on both sides.
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