Species Information - Goodyera pusilla

Goodyera pusilla Blume, Fl. Javae, n.s., 1 (1858) 31, pl. 9b fig. 3

Type: Blume s.n. (W. Java, Mt. Pangrango) (holo L)

Synonyms:

• Orchiodes pusillum (Blume) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. (1891) 675
• Epipactis pusilla (Blume) Eaton, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 21 (1908) 65

Small terrestrial. Stems creeping at the base, leafy part erect, terete, fleshy, 3-6 cm long, 4-5-leaved. Leaves petiolate; petiole with sheath 0.9 cm long, sheath tubular; blade oblong-ovate, 3.3 by 1.5 cm, margins somewhat wavy, apex acute. Inflorescence racemose, erect, 6 cm long, shortly pubescent; peduncle 3.5 cm long, peduncle-scales tubular, with a small blade, c. 8-flowered. Floral bracts at the base broad, subulate-pointed. Flowers resupinated, 0.25 cm across, only slightly opening. Median sepal ovate, 0.3 cm long, concave, glabrous, apex obtuse. Lateral sepals obliquely ovate, 0.4 cm long, glabrous, mid-rib prominent outside, apex obtuse. Petals unequal-sided, somewhat falcate, narrowly semirhombic, 0.27 cm long, forming a helmet with the median sepal, apex crenulate. Lip appressed to the column, base saccate, projecting from between the bases of the lateral sepals, broad, obtuse, grooved outside, inside bristly hairy, blade triangular, margins conduplicate and finely denticulate. Column short, clinandrium deep; rostellum short, porrect, bidentate, stigma almost round. Anther short cordate, acute. Pollinia two, clavate, deeply divided. (After Smith, 1905).

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