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Type: Correspondence
Published: 2020-02-17
Page range: 177–180
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Stereochilus arunachalensis, a new orchid species of Orchidaceae (Epidendroideae: Vandeae: Aeridinae) from Arunachal Pradesh, India

Botanical Survey of India, Arunachal Pradesh Regional Centre, Senki View, Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh-791 111, India
1-156, Rajarajeswari Nagar, Tangellamudi, ELURU-534005, West Godavari District, Andhra Pradesh, India
Stereochilus Orchid sub tropical zone Dibang Valley Monocots

Abstract

Stereochilus Lindley (1858: 38) is a small orchid genus of about seven species distributed from northeastern India to Vietnam (Govaerts et al. 2019). It is characterised by a long, erect footless column with firmly attached saccate lip, long subulate rostellum projection and long slender somewhat clavate stipes with a small viscidium carrying four equal, ovate pollinia with short caudicles, the sac inside with back wall callus, front wall callus and septum (Seidenfaden 1988).