Geodorum laxiflorum Griff.

Accepted

जरका

Plant terrestrial, 30–50 cm tall (including leaves); corm 4.5–5 cm, ovoid, slightly compressed, greenish-brown, with scars of fallen leaves; roots few, vermiform, ca. 0.2 cm thick; pseudo stem ca. 10 × 1 cm, enclosed by four foliar imbricating sheaths; leaves 2–4, Cauline, alternate, elliptic lanceolate, acute, undulate, subequal, 13–36 × 8–12 cm, many veined, midvein prominent beneath; inflorescence lateral from the base of newly developed leafy shoot and shorter than it, 20–30 cm; peduncle erect, 20–27 × 0.2 cm, green, decurved at the top, with four membranous tubular sheaths; raceme laxly flowered with 6–12 medium sized flowers; rachis decurved, ca. 2.5– 4 cm long with two sterile bracts; bracts  green,  oblong  lanceolate,  ca.  1.1  ×  0.3  cm, membranous with acute apex, 3 veined; pedicel with ovary  1.3  cm  long,  ribbed;  flowers  white  off-white, sepals and petals spreading, 1.5– 2.5 cm across; sepals subequal, 5-veined, oblong lanceolate; dorsal sepal ca. 2.1 × 0.6–0.7 cm; lateral sepals ca. 2.2 × 0.8 cm; petals broader, obovate oblong, ca. 2.3 × 1.2 cm, apex acute obtuse,  7-veined;  lip  ca.  2.1  ×  1.5–1.7  cm,  broadly obovate, emarginated, sessile on the base of column, entire, ventricose at the base; sides of the hypochile erect; epichile undulate, edge deflexed, two irregular rows of thick warts starting from the base of the epichile and ending before the apex, hypochile golden brown within, epichile yellow at base and pink at apex; column stout, short, oblong, slightly dilated, ca. 0.5–0.6 × 0.3 cm long; stigma squarish, ca. 0.2 cm long, anther broadly ovate orbicular in outline, ca. 0.3–0.4 cm, off-white with brown tinge, the locules pouch like; pollinia yellow, obliquely oblong ovoid, porate behind, ca. 0.2 × 0.15 cm, stipe hyaline, subquadrate