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Corymborchis welwitschii

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Identification
Corymborchis welwitschii Kuntze [family ORCHIDACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Isotype of Corymbis welwitschii Rchb.f. [family ORCHIDACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Corymborkis corymbosa Jhau. [family ORCHIDACEAE ] Verified by Hunt, P. J., 1967 Corymborkis corymbis Thou. [family ORCHIDACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Rasmussen, Finn N., 1977
Related name
  • Corymborkis corymbosa
  • Corymbis welwitschii
  • Corymborkis corymbis
  • Corymborchis welwitschii

Flora

Entry for CORYMBIS Welwitschii Reichb. f. [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
CORYMBIS Welwitschii Reichb. f. [family ORCHIDACEAE], in Flora, 1865, 183;—Rolfe in Bolet. Soc. Brot. ix. 141, and in Dyer, Fl. Trop. Afr. vii. 180; Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 56; Bolus, Ic. Orch. Austr.-Afr. ii. t. 98.
Corymbis disticha Lindl. [family ORCHIDACEAE], Fol. Orch. Corymbis, 1, partly; Journ. Linn. Soc. vi. 138, partly.
Corymbis corymbosa Durand & Schinz [family ORCHIDACEAE], Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 56, partly.
Corymborchis Welwitschii O. Kuntze [family ORCHIDACEAE], Rev. Gen. Pl. ii. 658.
Information
stems erect, 3–6 ft. high; leaves elliptic-lanceolate or broadly elliptic, acuminate, 7–12 in. long, 1 1/2–2 1/2 in. broad; panicles axillary and terminal, shortly pedunculate; bracts ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, 1/2– 3/4 in. long; flowers greenish-white; sepals and petals narrowly elongate-linear, narrowly lanceolate near the apex, 2 1/2 in. long; lip similar to the sepals, but the apical part of the limb is ovate and about four times as broad; column 1 3/4 in. long; capsule linear-oblong, 1 in. long. null
Range
Also in Tropical Africa.
Distribution
EASTERN REGION Pondoland; mouth of St. Johns River, 300 ft., Flanagan in Herb. Bolus, 8703!

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