The rostellum in the flowers I have examined is oddly asymmetric: the two acuminate arms are of unequal size; in addition, there is a ventral linear-oblong ligule.
BLUMEA
397-406
(1996)
41
Notes
on
Goodyerinae (Orchidaceae)
—
I
A. Schuiteman
Rijksherbarium
/ Hortus
Botanicus,
P. O. Box
2300
9514,
RA Leiden.
The Netherlands
Summary
Goodyera subregularis (Rchb. f.) chilus.
A
recorded are
from New Guinea
transferred
for the first time.
to Moerenhoutia.
species
and the two
(Schltr.)
Schltr. from New
Schltr.
are
of the former
The
also transferred to
ed from Sulawesi
and New Guinea.
monotypic
is here
genus
of A.
J.J. Sm.
J.J. Sm.
is transferred
and P.
is reduced
The
genus
Myrmechis
reticulata Schltr. is
for the first time.
newly
Blume
Myrmechis
not
is
J.J. Sm.
tidorensis
to
was
to Anoecto-
(Schltr.) Kittr.,
papuanus
Cheirostylis quadrilobata Schltr.
Myrmechis.
Papuaea
illustrated
Tubilabium
genus
and Vanuatu
form
bombus
Platylepis
transferred.
are
Caledonia
the normal
non-peloric Anoectochilus, possibly
and C. chalmersii
previously
recorded from Irian
record-
Jaya;
this
Odontochilus calcaratus Hook. f. is reduced
to
Cretz. & J.J. Sm.
Pristiglottis uniflora (Blume)
Introduction
The genera of the subtribe
guished
on
potential diagnostic
value:
ornamentation of the ages
These characters
often difficult occur
the
not
absence of
or
stigma-lobes
surprising, therefore,
among others, of a
spur;
glands); append-
are
separate
dried material in
or
con-
particular
is
that many misidentifications
in herbaria.
Below I present
Rijksherbarium of
or not
or
warts,
distin-
exclusively
are,
presence
papillae,
always easily observable;
It is
interpret.
to
whether
almost
are
characters
flower;
and location of
column;
are not
following
of the
resupination
lip (shape
and lamellae of the
nate.
Orchidaceae-Goodyerinae
the basis of floral details. The
some
some
Leiden
results of my
(unless
observations made
completion which had
prepared
at
of not
from
be taken into
a
prior
been
during
version
properly
rehydrated
investigations
indicated a recent
otherwise). visit
of this article.
identified. The
to
cited
certain
are
drawn
illustrations, a
preserved are
at
the
the results
Kew, which took place after the
Specimens
herbarium material;
degree
by
limited
to
the author,
those were
of distortion should
account.
NOTES
ON
SELECTED
GENERA
ANOECTOCHILUS
The genus Eucosia Blume was based form of
of material
Also included
Goodyera
on
Blume
what appears
viridiflora (Blume) Blume,
as
to
be
noted
an
by
abnormal, autogamous
J.J.Smith (1905:
Schlechter initially agreed that Eucosia should be considered yera, and transferred the
only species,
E.
carnea
Blume,
to
a
131).
synonym of Good-
Goodyera (creating
an
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398
Fig.
1. Anoectochilus ? papuanus (Schltr.)
mechis
bilobulifera (J.J. Sm.)
(Blume) c,
d:
—Vol.
Cretz. & J.J. Sm.
Bünnemeijer 12279;
double
scale
bar
=
2 mm.
e.
Schuit.
c.
de
a.
Lip, spread;
Lip, spread;
e, f:
Kittr.
41,
Wilde
f. &
No.
1996
Lip, spread; d.
b.
column,
column, lateral
column, ventral de
2,
view
(a,
view.
b:
Wilde-Duyfjes 13833).
van
—
lateral
—
view.
—
Myr-
Pristiglottis uniflora
Royen&
Single
Sleumer
scale
bar
=
6253; 5 mm;
A. Schuiteman:
illegitimate name).
Notes
A few years later he
from New Guinea and New Caledonia E.
Eucosia papuana and E. aloid
lip.
mind,
his
changed
and referred
the genus Eucosia
to
subregularis
Unlike in Eucosia
399
Goodyerinae
[E.
carnea
as
two
species
in these
lip
two
is
species
was
recognized by Kittredge
abnormal forms of
not
in the
pet-
glabrous lip,
as
indicate that these
but rather of Anoectochilus. This
Goodyera,
case
a
and the
glabrous
stigma-lobes,
the column with anterior lamellaeand separate are
Schltr. and
undoubtedly peloric forms, having
are
the
column is normal. The broad leaves with reticulate metallic veins, the well
orchids
two
papuana
respectively].
Schltr.
subregularis (Rchb.f.)
on
of Eucosia papuana, which he transferred
to
Anoectochilus. In
it
although
yera, self
literature, Eucosia subregularis has been treated
recent
(1906:
is
too
clearly
Anoectochilus with
an
54) already suggested
that
between the
similarity
There is
an
(1977: 530)
peloric well
in New Caledonia
this
was
morphology
would
seem
that
the
most
three,
only
a
peloric
two
or
four
(see below,
normal form. The
can
we
term as
In New Caledonia
occur.
tell? In habit
are
not
has
species
they
in
expressed
forms appear
under A.
so
far
seen
to
not
all
appear
yet
to
alone
bring clarity
be
found in the
are
peloric specimen.
a
Are
indistinguishable.
be
two
forms have
only
Fig.
cannot
help
are
we
here. It
us
about the actual number
collection of
appears
not
yet
to
be
are
a
'normal' Anoecto-
either sterile
more common
been found
or
represent
than the
putative
together.
Bot. Mus. Leafl. 30, 2
(1985,
'1984')
95
la, b Schltr., Feddes Repert.,
Eucosia papuana
The Orchidaceae New
one
Other collections
papuanus).
Anoectochilus papuanus (Schltr.) Kittr.,
Guinea,
(in part),
Part 4
Distribution mer
forms. The very
of the diagnostic characters
species? Morphology
peloric form, which, remarkably,
—
peloric
for the New Guinea
molecular analysis may
From New Guinea I have
the
form
involved.
taxa
chilus
peloric
a
the normal forms from New Caledonia and New Guinea
species,
with two,
dealing
name
but these characters
lip,
though
distinct
clearly
of
of the
even
be
Each of these could be the normal form of the sym-
In Anoectochilus
indistinguishable.
In fact,
correct
certainty.
form; the problem is, how
patic peloric
Schlechter him-
normal form. Now, in New Guinea
a
'normal' Anoectochilus does
the
named A. imitans;
been established with
of Good-
species
also comments upon the remark-
associated with these
interesting problem
a
a
species.
two
form presupposes the existence of
as
as
petaloid lip.
Goodyera subregularis might
of Anoectochilus imitans Schltr. Halle able
a
—
in
Beih.
Johns &
(1984) 62,
f.
New Guinea
1
Hay,
A
(1911) 76; student's
ibid.
21
guide
(1923)
to the
t.
31,
f.
103; Howcroft, of
Monocotyledons
Papua
34.
(Papua
New
Guinea;
Irian
Jaya:
?
van
Royen
& Sleu-
6253).
Note
—
is
clearly
to
A.
The
not a
setaceus
longer spur
specimen peloric
cited and
form
Blume and A.
(hence
illustrated, which,
unlike the type of A. papuanus,
the identification is
longicalcaratus
and smaller epichile of the
lip,
the lobes of which taper instead of widen
uncertain),
is
florally
similar
J.J. Sm. From the first it differs in the
from the second in the smaller epichile,
to
the apex. The
morphology
of the inflo-
BLUMEA —Vol.
400
and the
rescence
I consider it
Georchis
Rchb.
675.
(1891)
58; Halle, Fl.
Nouv.
f.,
—
Linnaea
Caled.
8
Note
A.
208;
t.
Eaton,
Lewis
Syst.
45
to
be
authors
recent
Moluccas
tropical
to
agree
that the
Madagascar
with about
on
the
ten
153,
to the
of the
hypochile
genera
bombus f.
with A. imitans, the
Seychelles.
153,
J.J.
—
tidorensis
are
to
be
lip
of
Moerenhoutia,
respective
kept apart.
Sm.,
Bull.
28.
—
Euco-
name
A. sub-
distributed from the
well
as
areas
occurs
from
as
the lateral
conjunction
following
two
lacks the lamel-
wings
with the
these differences do in my
This necessitates the
Jard. Bot.
opinion
transfers.
nov.
Buitenzorg III,
10
(1928) 100;
ibid.
Suppl.
3
ibid.
Suppl. 3 (1949)
(1949)
Moluccas.
J.J.
Sm., Bull. Jard.
Bot.
Buitenzorg III,
nov.
11
(1930) 68;
Moluccas.
describing Tubilabium,
between his
diagnostic
new
genus and
J.J. Smith
Myrmechis.
Blume
(1928)
noted the close habitual
He considered the
following
for Tubilabium:
1) Apical part 2)
Blume,
admittedly small; Platylepis
MYRMECHIS
be
—
f. II.
Distribution —
When
66.
The differences between the
Moerenhoutia tidorensis (J.J. Sm.) Schuit., comb.
t.
(1908)
I.
Distribution
Platylepis
(1906)
(1989)
Blume
Moerenhoutiabombus (J.J. Sm.) Schuit., comb.
t.
21
39
Syst.
394.
(1911)
Moerenhoutia
genus
species)
distance between the
these
Platylepis
Washington
the top of the column of the latter. However, in
near
enormous
justify
Soc.
Bot. Jahrb.
Orch. Vanuatu
Cribb,
Tahiti, is distinct from the genus Platylepis A. Rich., which
genera (each
found
subregularis (Rchb. f.) Kuntze,
priority.
Africa and
lae present
&
conspecific
MOERENHOUTIA
All
nov.
Orchiodes
Proc. Biol.
Bot. Jahrb.
is found
species
will have
regularis
papuanus.
comb.
—
indistin-
are
(Schlechter 17361).
Vanuatu, New Caledonia.
—
If this
—
(1877) 61.
(1977) 528,
subregularis (Rchb. f.) Schltr.,
Distribution
41
papuana
Goodyera subregularis (Rchb. f.) Schltr.,
Epipactis subregularis (Rchb. f.) sia
of Eucosia
subregularis (Rchb. f.) Schuit.,
subregularis
Rev. Gen.
isotype specimen
1996
2,
that this is the normal form of A.
likely
Anoectochilus
an
No.
the venation of the leaves,
vegetative parts, including
from those of
guishable
41,
of the
lip tubular, papillose,
Column recurved.
not
dilated into
a
midlobe.
similarity
characters
to
A. Schuiteman:
The
of
of
In Tubilabium the
The
be cited
can
epiphytes
as
on
Myrmechis Tubilabium t.
149,
Myrmechis
aureum
J.J.
Sm.,
Bull.
a
at
t.
—
turn
it into
the
eat
a
flower in
weaker character still;
and
Myrmechis below)
to
are
L).
terrestrials in
montane
forest,
sometimes also
trunks.
tree
comb.
Jard. Bot.
nov.
Buitenzorg III,
9
(1928) 446;
ibid.
3
Suppl.
(1941)
Moluccas.
bilobuliferum
J.J.
Sm.,
Bull.
Jard.
Bot.
nov.
—
Buitenzorg III,
10
d
lc,
Fig.
(1928) 6;
ibid.
Suppl.
3
f. III.
148,
Distribution
—
Sulawesi.
Myrmechis
Note
a
poorly develop-
snail should
a
species bridging Tubilabium
Myrmechis bilobulifera (J.J.Sm.) Schuit., comb.
(1941)
is
I.
Distribution
Tubilabium
a
(transferred
only (both
as
(J.J. Sm.) Schuit.,
aurea
f.
occur
and
logs
mossy
as
of Tubilabium
species
two
of
species
(if
chalmersii it would almost
still known from the type collections All
epichile
the existence of mesochile and
papillose
tubular
a
The recurved column is
M. chalmersii
this respect, too,
Myrmechis.
Myrmechis
bilobuliferum).
of Tubilabium
invalidated by
opinion,
essential difference in morphology
no
flower of
a
in my
is,
401
Goodyerinae
on
lip combining
a
epichile (see Fig. 2).
but there is
epichile
with
Myrmechis
dilated
clearly ed,
value of the first
diagnostic
species
Notes
was
not
previously
recorded from Sulawesi. See also M. qua-
drilobata.
Myrmechis chalmersii (Schltr.) Schuit., comb. Zeuxine
chalmersii Schltr.,
Schltr.,
Feddes
Distribution Notes 2.
—
—
Herb. Boiss.
as
3. See also the
(1906)
M.
Cheirostylis
—
chalmersii
(Schltr.)
this
Myrmechis
species
is
from New Guinea.
very
similar to the
species
aff. chalmersii (see below). under M.
note
—
297.
seen).
description,
quadrilobata.
Schuit.
Myrmechis aff. chalmersii (Schltr.) Distribution
6
is the first record of the genus
from Schlechter's
illustrated here
II,
11.
New Guinea (no material
1. This
Judging
Bull.
Repert. 10(1911)
nov.
Moluccas
(Bacan:
de
—
Fig.
2
Vogel 3589, 3589B);
Lesser Sunda Islands
(Flores: Kostermans & Wirawan 670; Schmutz 5526B). Notes M.
—
1. The
chalmersii,
identification
specimens
but due
cannot
to
cited agree
fairly
well with Schlechter's
at
are
a
of
positive
yet be made.
2. The rostellum in the flowers I have examined is acuminate arms
description
the lack of material and illustrations of the latter
of
unequal size;
the base of the smaller of the
in addition, there is
two
arms.
This
ligule,
oddly asymmetric: a
ventral
which is
the
two
linear-oblong ligule not
found with the
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402
Fig.
2.
spread; wan
Myrmechis g.
670).
column
aff. chalmersii and base of
lip;
(Schltr.) h. column
Vol.
Schuit.
(a,
41,
a.
c—e:
No.
2,
Habit;
de
1996
b.
flower;
c.
Vogel 3589B; b,
sepals;
d.
petal;
f—h: Kostermans
e,
&
f.
lip,
Wira-
A. Schuiteman:
second rostellar
Notes
is also observed in M.
arm,
403
Goodyerinae
on
of the latter I
preservation
of frustration lated as
to me
that almost
There is
species.
needed
urgently
as
entirely
am not
certain. It has been
no
f.
Note
ently
on
—
Feddes
Repert.
comb.
10
the
strength sepals
distinct tube. In
and the lateral
below and
Myrmechis
parallel state
connate
the
sepals,
similar
sepals
dentate
to
are
tal part of the
Myrmechis
I would
to
M.
arms
74
(1934)
Cheirostylis.
tentatively suggest
the
only
most
that in
attached
t.
7,
to
Cheirostylis
caudicles
known from Schlechter's area
in
has
coarsely
glabrous, crest
lobes in
(on
not
(which
probably
looked
by
elongated.
Howcroft
abruptly
a
uniquely
is present in
swollen rhizome
fusiform in
lateral
Myrmechis);
arms
pointing
stipe
to
the dis-
quadrilobata
occurs,
match and
Myrmechis
of the rostellum and the a true
in Chei-
the column
probably
appendage
pollinarium;
whereas in
Myr-
Schltr.
Malesia,
the
monotypic Papuaea,
New Guinea, is
by
homologous genera),
until
material, Kempf
probably
lost. The
the
following
the
set
flange
spurred; stigma Papuaea
genus,
of charac-
apical margins
with the lateral
not
was
The type
The leaves have whitish reticulate veins.
(1984).
on
Myrmechis); stigma-lobes
resupinate; lip abaxially along is
seranica J. J. Sm.,
important,
only.
mesochile found in Anoectochilus and other nate, rostellum
an
is
appar-
Cheirosty-
length, forming
appendages
(narrowly
here illustrated for the first time, is well characterized
crenate
More
rostellum)
original description.
Papua
K).
in the basal part,
Additional differences between
obscure orchid genus in
from the Waria River
flowers
connate
sometimes one
morphology
and
Cheirostylis,
Myrmechis
blade-like
of the
PAPUAEA
Possibly
only
quadrilobata.
epichile (entire
may be found in the
are
are
In all these respects, M. chalmersii and M.
column).
mechis the pollinia
free,
not
obovoid ovaries
has);
[sterile]
for about two-thirds of their if
the dorsal side of the column
rather than
Cheirostylis
ters:
Beih.
the base. However, in
at
Cheirostylis nearly always
never
to
connate
genus (although
laciniate lobes of the turned
two
L
at
and M. chalmersii in
elongated
two
with the
of the
In addition,
Myrmechis).
(which Myrmechis
s.n.
(1911) 11; Feddes Repert.
almost free from each other.
are
connate
derived character
which
mutually
are
species
sepals being
the universal presence of
rostylis (just
of the
sepals
has
example,
now
nov.
(Schlechter 20431, isotypes
Sulawesi
—
Schlechter described this
lis the three
for
re-
material is
27.
Distribution
a
spirit
of
source
Goodyerinae.
Myrmechis quadrilobata (Schltr.) Schuit., Cheirostylis quadrilobata Schltr.,
state
considerable
a
other group of orchids in Malesia of which
it is in the
the
to
material has been collected of these and
spirit
no
I believe it is
bilobulifera (see Fig. Id).
available material) of M. seranica, but due present in the type (the only
with on
lobes
a
the
con-
was over-
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404
Fig.
3.
Papuaea
spread;
reticulata Schltr. a.
g. column
and
lip (all from
Habit;
Schram
Vol.
b.
41,
flower;
BW
No.
2,
c. lateral
9312).
1996
sepal;
d. dorsal
sepal;
e.
petal;
f.
lip,
A. Schuiteman:
Schltr.
Papuaea reticulata Papuaea
reticulata
Distribution
9312).
Notes
1. The
—
mately is
anomalous
dissect
and the
sandy clay
at
380
from Erave, Southern
to
to
a
pair
of sessile
hand
at
interior
two
by
Irian
me
is
drawing
sepals
are
not
partly
was
I did
the
on
lip
not want to
had been identified
(which
ovate
Jay a:
only approxi-
papillae
calli).
in the
as
description but I do
latter),
doubt the identification of the
not
species. Again,
welcome. collected
was
200 km
c.
altitude. The flowers
m
in the
given
as
instead of
one,
refers
the
(e.g.,
most
2. Schram BW 9312 on
only
sufficiently large
are
4290 [K];
few minor differences between Schlechter's
a
illustrated
specimen
material would be
spirit
of the column
(Schlechter
There are
sp.).
think these
shape
flowers of the sparse material
more
Macodes
New Guinea: Reeve
(Papua
The presence of
accurate.
probably
105.
(1919)
flower of Schram BW 9312 examined
single
result the
as a
16
Repert.
New Guinea
—
Schram BW
damaged;
Feddes
Schltr.,
405
Goodyerinae
on
3
Fig.
—
Notes
Highlands Province,
at
of
west
1200
m.
in
Jayapura
forest
primary
Reeve 4290
yellow.
were
originates
The flower colour
was
not
recorded.
Cretz. &
PRISTIGLOTTIS
Cretz. &
Pristiglottis uniflora (Blume)
Cretz. &
Pristiglottis uniflora (Blume) 6.
—
India
6
Rev. Gen. 1
2
Fl. Ind. Bat. 3
Ic. PI.
(1890) 99; (1891)
658.
(1894)
—
and
Malaysia
Distribution
—
Bot. Ark.
(1858) 69,
733.
syn.
Anoectochilus
(1907) 214; Seidenf., Dansk
Penins.
(1859)
2162,
t.
—
nov.
Singapore (1992) 75,
2
21,
Cystopus
f.
1;
t.
II,
23G.
calcaratus
(Hook.f.) Ridley,
(1978) 46,
f. 26
t.
f.
21;
Seidenf.
Bot.
—
Odontochilus calcaratus
—
calcaratus
32,
le, f
Fig.
—
Faun. Fl. Univ. Bucuresti
J.J.Sm., Acta
Fl. Javae n.s.
Cystopus uniflorus Blume,
uniflorus (Blume) Miq.,
J.J. Sm.
J.J.Sm.
14
Hook,
(1934)
Fl. Brit.
f.,
(Hook, f.)
Mat. Fl. &
1,
Anoectochilus
Kuntze,
Malay
J.J.Wood,
Penins.
Orchids
h-j.
Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia,
Sumatra
(de
Wilde & de
Wilde-
Duyfjes 13833). Note
—
specimen,
Until
now
Korthals
Pristiglottis uniflora
s. n.,
collected with
characteristic, tiny species, mm
long).
At first
The inflorescence, curved
sac
at
Blume,
(using agree
the
it
commonly
botanists).
who
was
name
is
interested in
only
in the
meagre type
Myrmechis gracilis (Blume) to
in the genus
this is
a
has caused
typical species
proportions
doubt that Odontochilus calcaratus should be reduced
of
am
grateful
to Dr. E.F.
de
Vogel,
who
suggested
several
re-
some con-
Pristiglottis,
already
established
epichile,
and I have
synonymy.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
I
(5-9
Blume.
Seidenfaden's illustrations
of the to
highly
3-flowered. The bilobed
(and
this group of orchids, and
a
very small leaves
carrying distant,
Cystopus). Blume's, Hooker's,
quite well, differing slightly
known from the
century ago in Sumatra. It is
may be up
unique
In other respects
keenly
a
resembles
1-flowered, lip
was
than
erect stems
strongly
the base of the
fusion among as
sight
more
improvements
in the
manuscript.
no
406
BLUMEA
Vol.
41,
No.
2,
1996
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