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Lissochilus calopterus

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Name

Identification
Lissochilus calopterus Rchb.f. [family ORCHIDACEAE ] Eulophia speciosa (R.Br. ex Lindl.) Bolus [family ORCHIDACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Lissochilus calopterus
  • Eulophia speciosa

Flora

Entry for LISSOCHILUS calopterus Reichb. f. [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
LISSOCHILUS calopterus Reichb. f. [family ORCHIDACEAE], in Bonplandia, iii. 218. —Reichb. f. in Walp. Ann. vi. 670; Flora, 1865, 187; Otia Bot. Hamb. ii. 76; Klotzsch in Peters' Mossamb. Bot. 513.
Information
Rhizome tuberous. Leaves elongate-linear or lanceolate-linear, acute, 6–18 in. long, 6–13 lin. broad. Scapes 2 1/2–4 ft. high, with a few short sheaths below; racemes 8–12 in. long, laxly many-flowered. Bracts linear-lanceolate, acute, 3–6 lin. long. Pedicels 8–10 lin. long. Flowers yellow. Sepals ovate-oblong, acute, 3 1/2–4 lin. long, adnate at the base to the foot of the column. Petals ovate, obtuse, or subobtuse, 6–8 lin. long. Lip pandurate-oblong, 6 lin. long; side lobes auriculate, rounded; front lobe elliptic-oblong, obtuse, convex with reflexed sides; disc with about 9 thickened keels; spur conical, 2 lin. long. Column stout, 2 1/2–3 lin. long; foot half as long as the column.
Distribution
Angola Lower Guinea Loanda; near Cacuaco, Welwitsch, 652! Ambriz, in thickets, Monteiro, 2!Zanzibar Mozamb. Dist. Hildebrandt, 1044 of 1873 collection (ex Reichenbach).German East Africa Mozamb. Dist. Bagamoyo, Hildebrandt, 1044B of 1874 collection.Portuguese East Africa Mozamb. Dist. Lower Zambesi; Boror, Peters. Lower Shire, Gombra, Scott!

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