Epirixanthes pallida

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Epirixanthes pallida

Description

Herb up to 15 cm, glabrous, straw-coloured. Leaves 2-4 mm long, swollen at base. Flowers c. 1.8 mm long, whitish. Sepala libera. Sepals free, unequal, the larger ones slightly cucullate, 0.8-1 mm long. Ovary elliptic, style shorter than the ovary, subcylindrical, c. 0.2 mm long, unequally 2-lobed, the larger upper lobe stigmatic, the lower one toothlike and hollow at apex; Fruit broadly elliptic or nearly didymous, c. 0.6 by 0.8 mm, at base tightly enclosed by the disk, the whole enclosed by the slightly longer sepals.

Distribution

Asia-Tropical: Borneo present; Sulawesi (Sulawesi present)
Malesia: Borneo, Celebes.

Notes

A distinct species, easily recognizable by its relatively large bracts which imbricately cover the upper part of the spike but are very early caducous.