WorldFloraDB - Burmannia oblonga

Characteristics

Saprophyte, 7-15 cm. Stem simple or branched, bearing 1-2 flowers, beset with appressed, ovate to lanceolate, obtuse, scale-like, about 1½ mm long leaves. Below the flower 2 lanceolate, scale-like bracts, 2½ mm. Flowers white, sometimes with yellow limb, 8-10 mm. Outer perianth lobes bifid, obtuse, about 1½ mm, papillose in the upper half at the margin, in the lower half with 2 yellow bags inside, provided with 2 involute, narrow triangular lateral lobes. Inner ones absent. Tube conical, 4-4½ mm long. Connective oblong, yellow, without crests or spur. Style thick-filiform, bearing at the apex 3 sessile, funnel-shaped curved stigmas. Style with stigmas about 4½ mm. Ovary subglobose, 2½-4 mm. Flower wings obovate, truncate, white, 5-7½ by 3-4 mm.

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Plants without chlorophyll, holomycotrophic, flowering when 7-20 cm tall. Stems whitish, slender. Basal rosette leaves absent. Cauline leaves triangular, 1.5-3 × 1-2 mm. Inflorescences 1-4-flowered; bracts triangular-lanceolate, 2.5-3 mm. Flowers pedicellate to subsessile, whitish, 0.8-1.4 cm. Perianth tube 4.5-5.5 mm; wings conspicuous, 3-5.5 mm wide; outer tepals broadly oblong, ca. 2 mm, margin single; inner tepals absent. Stamens sessile; connectives with 2 apical crests and a pendent basal spur. Ovary globose to rhomboid, ca. 4 mm. Capsule subglobose. Seeds fusiform. Fl. and fr. Jul-Dec.

Life form

annual

Growth form

herb

Growth support

mycoheterotroph

Foliage retention

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Sexuality

hermaphrodite

Pollination

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Spread

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Mature width (meter)

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Mature height (meter)

0.07 - 0.18

Root system

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Flower color

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Blooming months

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Fruit color

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Fruiting months

Jan	Feb	Mar
Apr	May	Jun
Jul	Aug	Sep
Oct	Nov	Dec

Nitrogen fixer

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Photosynthetic pathway

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Environment

On forested rocks or loamy soil in dense jungle or forest, ascending to 1300 m.

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Usage

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Cultivation

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Distribution

Identifiers

LSID	urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:126637-1
WFO ID	wfo-0000342540
COL ID	NXQS
BDTFX ID	-
INPN ID	-
Wikipedia (EN)
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Burmannia bifida Burmannia oblonga

WorldFloraDB 2024

Burmannia oblonga Ridl.

Species