Entry for EULOPHIA stricta Rolfe [family ORCHIDACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 7, page 12, (1898) Author: (By R. A. Rolfe.)
Names
EULOPHIA strictaRolfe [family ORCHIDACEAE]
Lissochilus spOliv. [family ORCHIDACEAE], in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, ii. 349.
Information
Leaves oblong-lanceolate, acute, 3–5 lin. long, 7–10 lin. wide. Scapes 2–2 1/4 ft. high, with a few short sheaths below; racemes 1 ft. long, lax, many-flowered. Bracts lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, acute, 1 1/2–4 lin. long. Pedicels 2–3 lin. long. Sepals oblong, subobtuse or apiculate, 4 lin. long, subattenuate at the base; lateral ones adnate to the short foot of the column. Petals elliptical-oblong, obtuse, 3 1/2 lin. long. Lip trilobed, 3 1/2 lin. long; side lobes quadrate; front lobe broadly oblong, obtuse, somewhat crenulate; disc with three thickened crenulate keels at the base and five to seven more slender ones above; nerves of the side lobes also somewhat thickened; spur conical-oblong, 1 1/2 lin. long. Column clavate, 2 1/2 lin. long, with a short foot.
Distribution
British East Africa Nile Land Kilimanjaro Expedition, 40–60 miles from the coast, Johnston!
Notes
This species has a distinct foot to the column, but otherwise seems allied to the preceding ones.