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Dendrobium brachycarpum

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Identification
Isotype of Dendrobium brachycarpum A.Rich. [family ORCHIDACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Aerangis brachycarpa (A.Rich.) T.Durand & Schinz. [family ORCHIDACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Dendrobium bilobum
  • Angraecum brachycarpum
  • Dendrobium unrecorded
  • Dendrobium brachycarpum
  • Aerangis brachycarpa
  • Dendrobium undesignated
  • Ethulia r��ppellii

Flora

Entry for Aerangis brachycarpa A. Rich. T. Durand & Schinz [family ORCHIDACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 11, Part 2, (1998) Author: I. la Croix & P.J. Cribb
Names
Aerangis brachycarpa A. Rich. T. Durand & Schinz [family ORCHIDACEAE], Consp. Fl. Afric. 5: 50 (1895). —Schlechter in Beih. Bot. Centralbl. 36, abt. 2: 115 (1918). —Stewart in Kew Bull. 34: 244 (1979); in F.T.E.A., Orchidaceae: 556 (1989). Type from Ethiopia.
Dendrobium brachycarpum A. Rich. [family ORCHIDACEAE], Voyage en Abyssinie 5: 282 (1850). —Reichenbach f. in Flora 48: 191 (1865).
Angraecum brachycarpum A. Rich. Rchb.f. [family ORCHIDACEAE], in Walpers, Ann. Bot. Syst. 3: 573 (1852, in note). —Schweinfurth, Beitr. Fl. Aethiop.: 292 (1867). —Rolfe in F.T.A. 7: 135 (1897).
Aerangis flabellifolia Rchb.f. [family ORCHIDACEAE], in Flora 48: 191 (1865). —T. Durand & Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afric. 5: 50 (1895). —Schlechter in Beih. Bot. Centralbl. 36, abt. 2: 116 (1918). —Stewart in Upland Kenya Wild Fl.: 793 (1974). Type from Angola.
Angraecum rohlfsianum Kraenzl. [family ORCHIDACEAE], in Bot. Zeitung (Berlin) 40: 341 (1882); Xenia Orchid 3: 76, t. 240 (1890); in Orchis 2, 4: 38, fig. 5 (1908). —T. Durand & Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afric. 5: 45 (1895). —Rolfe in F.T.A. 7: 137 (1897). Type from Ethiopia.
Angraecum flabellifolium Rchb.f. Rolfe [family ORCHIDACEAE], in F.T.A. 7: 135 (1897). —Rendle in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. 2, 1: 8 (1899).
Rhaphidorhynchus rohlfsianus Kraenzl. Finet [family ORCHIDACEAE], in Mém. Soc. Bot. France, No. 9: 38 (1907).
Aerangis rohlfsiana Kraenzl. Schltr. [family ORCHIDACEAE], in Beih. Bot. Centralbl. 36, abt. 2: 120 (1918).
Aerangis friesorium [family ORCHIDACEAE], sensu Tweedie in J. E. Africa Nat. Hist. Soc. 24: 36, 37 (1964). —Piers, Orch. E. Africa, rev. ed.: 210 (1968). —Stewart & Campbell, Orch. Trop. Africa: 30 (1970), non Schltr.
Aerangis sp. no. 4 [family ORCHIDACEAE], of Williamson, Orch. S. Centr. Africa: 193 (1977).
Information
Epiphytic herb; stem woody, erect or pendent, to 20 cm long but usually shorter; roots 5–6 mm in diameter, grey.Leaves 4–12, usually distichous, up to 25 cm long, 2–6 cm wide near the apex, obovate or spathulate with a sheathing base, unequally 2-lobed at the apex with the lobes rounded or acute; lamina fleshy or leathery, dark green, often with black dots.Inflorescences to 25 cm long, arching or pendent, 2–12-flowered.Peduncle to 10 cm long with 2–3 tight sheaths; rhachis slightly zigzag.Pedicel and ovary 3.5–7 cm long; bracts to 9 mm long, triangular, acute.Flowers in 2 rows, 1.5–3.5 cm apart, white, sometimes tinged with pinkish or brown.Sepals and petals 20–45 × 4–8 mm, all narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, often with margins recurved so that they look even narrower; dorsal sepal erect; lateral sepals and petals soon becoming reflexed.Lip deflexed, 20–45 × 5–10 mm, lanceolate, acuminate; spur 12–24 cm long, straight or slightly curved.Column 6–8 mm long; rostellum porrect.Fruit to 20 cm long, narrowly cylindrical.
Habitat
In dense shade, usually low down on tree trunks, branches or in the forking bases of bushes
Altitude range
1600–2300 m.
2300
1600
Distribution
Zambia N Mbala Distr., Kawimbe, fl. xi.1949, Bullock 1414 (K).Zambia C Serenje Distr., Kundalila Falls, 1380 m, fl. 4.ii.1973, Korna
Distribution (external)
Ethiopia
Uganda
Kenya
Tanzania
Angola

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