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Bartholina pectinata

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Identification
Bartholina pectinata R. Br. [family ORCHIDACEAE ]
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Flora

Entry for BARTHOLINA pectinata R. Br. [family ORCHIDACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 5, Part 3, page 3, (1913) Author: (By R. A. ROLFE.)
Names
BARTHOLINA pectinata R. Br. [family ORCHIDACEAE], in Ait. Hort. Kew, ed. 2, v. 194;—Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orch. 334; Endl. Ic. Gen. Pl. t. 1534; Bot. Mag. t. 7450; Bolus in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxv. 188, in Trans. S. Afr. Phil. Soc. v. 111 (excl. Bot. Reg. fig. & eastern habitat); and Orch. Cap. Penins. 111; Kränzl. Orch. Gen. et Sp. i. 593.
BARTHOLINA burmanniana Ker [family ORCHIDACEAE], in Journ. Sci. & Arts, iv. 204, t. 6, fig. 2; Drège, Zwei Pfl. Documente, 81; Sond. in Linnæa, xix. 83; Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 68.
Arethusa ciliaris Linn. f. [family ORCHIDACEAE], Suppl. 405.
Orchis burmanniana Linn. [family ORCHIDACEAE], Pl. Afr. Rar. 26, Amœn. Acad. vi. 108, and Sp. Pl. ed. ii. 1334; Sw. in Web. & Mohr, Archiv. i. 55, t. 3.
Orchis pectinata Thunb. [family ORCHIDACEAE], Prodr. 4, and Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 5; Willd. Sp. Pl. iv. 11.
Information
plant 2–9 in. high, with two ovoid tubers; leaf solitary, horizontal, sessile, broadly cordate or orbicular with a cordate base, flat or slightly convex, 1/2 to more than 1 in. long by about as broad; scapes erect, 2–9 in. high, copiously pilose with long spreading hairs, 1-flowered; bracts spathaceous, oblong-lanceolate, subacute, pubescent, 1/3– 1/2 in. long; pedicels 1/2– 3/4 in. long, pubescent; flowers very large, with light green sepals and lilac or light purple petals and lip; dorsal sepal cucullate, lanceolate, subacute, pubescent, 1/3– 1/2 in. long; lateral sepals linear-oblong, subacute, pubescent, about as long as the dorsal; petals lanceolate-linear, long-acuminate, one-third longer than the sepals; lip spreading, fan-shaped, 3/4–1 1/4 in. long, divided to below the middle into numerous filiform or narrowly linear acuminate segments; disc smooth; spur curved, narrowly conical, acute or subacute, 1/4– 1/3 in. long; column clavate, 1/4 to more than 1/3 in. long. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Tulbagh Div.; plain near Tulbagh, 430 ft., Schlechter, 1412! Worcester Div.; Dutoits Kloof, 3000–4000 ft., Drège, 1235a! Paarl Div.; Drakenstein Range, Rehmann, 2232! Cape Div.; Cape Flats, Pappe, 21! Wynberg, Pappe! Harvey! near Van Kamps Bay, 50 ft., MacOwan & Bolus, Herb. Norm. Austr.-Afr., 154! Muizen Berg, Wolley-Dod, 1749! Simons Bay, Bulger! near Cape Town, Harvey, 124! Bauer! Table Mountain, 300 ft., Dümmer, 395! and without precise locality, Rogers! Pappe! Hooker, 370! Bolus! Caledon Div.; Caledon, Prior!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Oldenburg, 607! Masson!

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