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Isotype of Mystacidium tanganyikense Summerh. [family ORCHIDACEAE]

Collector Moreau, #317

Collection Date 1942-06-26

Resource Type Specimens

Country Tanzania

Herbarium EA

Identifications Isotype of Mystacidium tanganyikense Summerh. [family ORCHIDACEAE] (stored under name);

Type of Mystacidium tanganyikense Summerh. [family ORCHIDACEAE]

Collector Moreau, W.M., #317

Collection Date 26-06-1942

Resource Type Specimens

Country Tanzania

Herbarium K

Identifications Type of Mystacidium tanganyikense Summerh. [family ORCHIDACEAE] (stored under name)

Mystacidium tanganyikense Summerh. [family ORCHIDACEAE]

Entry From FZ, Vol 11, Part 2, (1998) Author: I. la Croix & P.J. Cribb

Contributor Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)

Resource Type Reference Sources

Information Dwarf, delicate-looking, short-stemmed epiphytic herb.Roots very slender, 0.5–1 mm in diameter.Leaves several, 1–6 × 0.3–1.2 cm, oblanceolate, unequally and obtusely 2-lobed at the apex, dark green with raised venation.Pedicel and ovary 5–12 mm long, slender; bracts c. 2 mm long, brown.Flowers translucent, white or pale green.Sepals 4–8.5 × 1–2 mm, lanceolate, acute, spreading, slightly recurved; lateral sepals slightly longer and narrower than the dorsal sepal and somewhat oblique.Petals 4.7–7.3 × 1.5–2.5 mm, lanceolate, acute.Lip obscurely 3-lobed, 4.7–6.6 × 2.7–3 mm, lanceolate, acute; spur 10–20 mm long, slender, tapering from a wide mouth.Column 1 mm long.