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Megaclinium maximum

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Holotype of Megaclinium djumaensis De Wild. [family ORCHIDACEAE]
Largest Megaclinium
Bulbophyllum platyrrhachis (Rolfe) Schltr. [family ORCHIDACEAE]
Holotype of Megaclinium oxypterum Lindl. var. mozambicense Finet [family ORCHIDACEAE]
Isotype of Bulbophyllum oxypterum (Finet) DeWild. var. mozambicense [family ORCHIDACEAE]
Megaclinium maximum. Print from Edward's Botanical Register
Isotype of Megaclinium oxypterum Lindl. var. mozambicense Finet [family ORCHIDACEAE]
Isotype of Megaclinium oxypterum Lindl. var. mozambicense Finet [family ORCHIDACEAE]
Holotype of Megaclinium maximum Lindl. [family ORCHIDACEAE]
Isotype of Megaclinium oxypterum Lindl. var. mozambicense Finet [family ORCHIDACEAE]
Holotype of Megaclinium purpuratum Lindl. [family ORCHIDACEAE]
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Name

Identification
Megaclinium maximum Lindl. [family ORCHIDACEAE ]
Related name
  • Megaclinium maximum

Flora

Entry for MEGACLINIUM Lindleyi 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
MEGACLINIUM Lindleyi Rolfe [family ORCHIDACEAE]
Megaclinium maximum Lindl. [family ORCHIDACEAE], Bot. Reg. t. 1959 (not of Gen. & Sp. Orch.); Bot. Mag. t. 4028; Hook. Cent. Orch. 16, t. 3 (flaccidum on plate).
Bulbophyllum maximum Reichb. f. [family ORCHIDACEAE], in Walp. Ann. vi. 259.
Information
Pseudobulbs approximate, ovoid-oblong, 1 1/2–2 in. long, 2-leaved. Leaves linear-oblong, obtuse, 3 1/2–4 in. long, 6–8 lin. broad. Scape suberect, 1 1/2 ft. long; rhachis ensiform-falcate, very thin, light green, 10–11 in. long, 1/2 in. broad in the middle; margin obscurely repand-crenate. Bracts reflexed, subulate-linear from a broad base, 1 1/2 lin. long. Flowers 5–6 lin. apart, yellowish-green, speckled with brown. Pedicels 2 1/2 lin. long. Dorsal sepal erect, spathulate, obtuse or minutely apiculate, obscurely crenulate, 3 1/2 lin. long, 1 1/2 lin. broad; lateral ones reflexed, basal half broadly triangular-ovate, nearly 2 lin. long; apex linear, subacute. Petals linear-oblong, subobtuse, somewhat falcate, 3/4 lin. long. Lip recurved, linear-oblong from a somewhat broader base, obtuse, 1 lin. long. Column broad, 1/3 lin. long; margin winged; teeth short, subacute.
Distribution
Sierra Leone Upper Guinea Loddiges, cultivated specimen!
Notes
This species has been confused by Lindley with his previously described M. maximum, and hence requires a new name. It is only known by the figure and an inflorescence in Lindley's Herbarium. The locality can only be assumed from his remarks, but is probably correctly given here.

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