Entry for EULOPHIA Welwitschii 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 WelwitschiiRolfe [family ORCHIDACEAE], in Bolet. Soc. Brot. vii. 236.
Orthochilus WelwitschiiReichb. f. [family ORCHIDACEAE], in Flora, 1865, 186.
Information
Plant 1–1 1/4 ft. high. Leaves linear or linear-lanceolate, acute, 6–8 in. long, immature at flowering time. Scapes 1–1 1/4 ft. long, with a few lanceolate sheaths; racemes 2–3 in. long, about 7–9-flowered. Bracts lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, acute, 4–9 lin. long. Pedicels 5–6 lin. long. Sepals and petals oblanceolate, acute or subacuminate, 10–12 lin. long. Lip subentire, elliptical-oblong, obtuse, 10–11 lin. long; disc with three obtuse keels at the base; nerves more or less villose above; spur oblong, obtuse, 2 lin. long. Column stout, 2 1/2 lin. long.
Distribution
Angola Lower Guinea Huilla; at Monino, in sandy places among Proteaceæ, Welwitsch, 720! Huilla, Antunes, 22!
