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Lissochilus elatus

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Name

Identification
Lissochilus elatus Rolfe [family ORCHIDACEAE ] Lissochilus giganteus Welw. ex Reichb.f. [family ORCHIDACEAE ] Eulophia bouliawongo (Rchb.f.) J.Raynal [family ORCHIDACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Lissochilus giganteus
  • Lissochilus arenarius
  • Lissochilus elatus
  • Eulophia bouliawongo
  • Eulophia gigantea

Flora

Entry for LISSOCHILUS elatus 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
LISSOCHILUS elatus Rolfe [family ORCHIDACEAE]
Information
Rhizome stout. Leaves long petiolate, narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, 2–3 ft. long, 1 1/2–2 1/2 in. broad. Scapes 4–8 ft. high, with numerous sheaths below; racemes 9–12 in. long, many-flowered. Bracts obovate-oblong or elliptic-oblong, obtuse or apiculate, concave, 3/4–1 in. long. Flowers pink or purple. Sepals oblong or obovate-oblong, apiculate, 9–11 lin. long. Petals suborbicular-elliptical, 1–1 1/4 in. long. Lip trilobed, 1–1 1/4 lin. long; side lobes broadly rounded; front lobe broadly elliptic-oblong or obovate, obtuse; disc with 3 slender, thickened keels. Column clavate, 8 lin. long. Capsule broadly elliptical, 1 3/4 in. long.
Distribution
Gaboon Lower Guinea Gaboon River, Mann, 1039! Munda; Sibange Farm, in swamps, Soyaux, 39!Angola Lower Guinea Benguela, Monteiro!Congo Lower Guinea Smith!Cameroons Upper Guinea Batanga; near Lobe village, in damp grassy places, Bates, 61! Cameroon country, King!
Notes
Near L. giganteus, Welw., but a dwarfer plant, with narrower leaves and smaller bracts and flowers. The plant cited by Kränzlin as L. giganteus, Reichb. f. (Mitth. Deutsch. Schutzgeb. ii. 1889, 156) from Batanga, Braun, 23, probably belongs here.

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