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Habenaria paludosa

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Type? of Habenaria caldensis Kraenzl. [family ORCHIDACEAE]
Platycoryne protearum (Rchb.f.) Rolfe [family ORCHIDACEAE]
Habenaria paludosa Lindl. [family ORCHIDACEAE]
Platycoryne paludosa (Lindl.) Rolfe [family ORCHIDACEAE]
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Identification
Habenaria paludosa Lindl. [family ORCHIDACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Data not digitized, Habenaria paludosa Lindl. [family ORCHIDACEAE ] Verified by Data not digitized,
Related name
  • Platycoryne protearum
  • Habenaria paludosa
  • Platycoryne paludosa
  • Habenaria caldensis

Flora

Entry for PLATYCORYNE paludosa 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
PLATYCORYNE paludosa Rolfe [family ORCHIDACEAE]
Habenaria paludosa Lindl. [family ], in Journ. Linn. Soc. vi. 139; Kränzl. in Engl. Jahrb. xvi. 208.
Information
Plant slender, 1–1 1/2 ft. high. Leaves few, cauline, rather distant, oblong-lanceolate, acute, 1/2–1 1/4 in. long. Racemes 2–4- (sometimes 1-) flowered. Bracts ovate-lanceolate, shortly acuminate, 4–5 lin. long. Pedicels 6–9 lin. long. Flowers deep orange. Sepals 4 lin. long; dorsal ovate-oblong, apiculate; lateral lanceolate-oblong, subacute. Petals simple, lanceolate, subacute, 4 lin. long, appressed to the dorsal sepal. Lip subspathulate-linear, obtuse, 2 1/2 lin. long, with a pair of minute, basal teeth; spur subclavate, subacute, 4 lin. long. Stigmatic processes oblong, obtuse, connate, 1 lin. long. Anther channels linear-oblong, 1 1/2 lin. long. Rostellum triangular, subobtuse, 1 lin. long.
Distribution
Niger Upper Guinea Nupe; in swamps, Barter, 1479!

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