Entry for LISSOCHILUS Welwitschii 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 WelwitschiiReichb. f. [family ORCHIDACEAE], in Flora, 1865, 188.
Information
Leaves lanceolate, acute, long petiolate, 2–3 ft. long, about 1 1/4 in. broad. Scapes 4–6 ft. high, stout; racemes 1 ft. or more long, many-flowered. Bracts broadly ovate or ovate-oblong, subobtuse, 8–10 lin. long. Pedicels 12–15 lin. long. Sepals oblong or obovate-oblong, subacute, 9–10 lin. long. Petals broadly elliptical or suborbicular-elliptical, 13–14 lin. long. Lip trilobed, 18–19 lin. long; side lobes broadly rounded, crenulate at the apex; front lobe broadly oblong, subobtuse, crenulate; disc with 3 deep, narrow, crenulate lamellæ in the middle, the central one being shorter than the others; spur conical, with a broad base, 5–6 lin. long. Column clavate, stout, 8–9 lin. long.
