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Listrostachys zenkeri

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Filed as Listrostachys pertusa Rchb.f. [family ORCHIDACEAE]
Isotype of Listrostachys zenkeri Kraenzl. [family ORCHIDACEAE]
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Name

Identification
Bolusiella zenkeri (Kraenzl.) Schltr. [family ORCHIDACEAE ] (stored under name); Isotype of Listrostachys zenkeri Kraenzl. [family ORCHIDACEAE ]
Related name
  • Bolusiella zenkeri
  • Listrostachys zenkeri

Flora

Entry for LISTROSTACHYS Zenkeri Kränzl. [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
LISTROSTACHYS Zenkeri Kränzl. [family ORCHIDACEAE], in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 252.
Information
Plant very small, with a short, stout stem. Leaves ensiform, short, 1 1/2–2 in. long, 2 lin. broad; apex unequal, subacute. Racemes erect, a little longer than the leaves, with retuse, ochreate sheaths at the base. Bracts broadly triangular, acute, half as long as the flowers. Flowers 1 lin. diam. Dorsal sepal oblong, obtuse, with a thickened apiculus; lateral equal, carinate; apex biapiculate, one point being in front of the other. Petals a little broader than the sepals, more slender, very obtuse. Lip ovate-oblong, obtuse, a little contracted above the base; spur as long as the limb, inflated, slightly compressed, obtuse, incurved. Column stout, anther elongate, retuse; pollinia with 2 slightly thickened and excavate stipites.
Distribution
Cameroons Upper Guinea Yaunde, on high trees of the primæval forest, Zenker, 623.
Notes
Said to be one of the smallest species of the genus, with the habit of Angræcum Maudæ, Bolus, which it closely resembles in habit. I have not seen it. A fruiting specimen from Sugarloaf Mountain, Sierra Leone, Barter! apparently represents an allied species.

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