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Neobolusia ciliata

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Name

Identification
Neobolusia ciliata Summerh. [family ORCHIDACEAE ]
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Flora

Entry for Neobolusia ciliata Summerh. [family ORCHIDACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 11, Part 1, (1995) Author: I. la Croix and P.J. Cribb
Names
Neobolusia ciliata Summerh. [family ORCHIDACEAE], in Kew Bull. 11: 217 (1956). —Goodier & Phipps in Kirkia 1: 53 (1961). —Grosvenor in Excelsa 6: 84 (1976). TAB. 9. Type: Zimbabwe, Makoni Distr., Rusape, Eyles 8358 (K, holotype; SRGH).
Information
Terrestrial herb, glabrous except for lip and petal margins and the tuber; tuber c. 20 × 3 mm, fusiform, villose.Leaves usually 3, largest near the stem base, 4.2–6.5 × 1–1.2 cm, lanceolate, apiculate.Inflorescence laxly 3–10-flowered, flowers suberect; ovary 5–7 mm long; bracts 10–12 × 5 mm.Sepals greenish to straw-coloured, purple-veined; petals pale green and rimmed with pale purple, pellucid-punctate; lip deep glossy-purple, pale or greenish at tip.Dorsal sepal erect, 9.2–9.6 × 3–4 mm, lanceolate, acute; lateral sepals spreading, 9.7–10.5 × 3–3.7 mm, obliquely lanceolate, acute.Petals 5.9–8.2 × 2.7–3.7 mm, lanceolate, slightly ciliolate on margin.Lip 11–13.5 × 9–10.5 mm, broadly rhomboid-hastate, 3-lobed in the basal half, ciliate on the margin; mid-lobe 6.2–7.5 × 5.3–7 mm; lateral lobes 1–2.5 mm long along the front margin.Column 4.3–5 mm high.
Habitat
High, grassy plateau and montane grassland
Range
Only known from the eastern border area of Zimbabwe and adjacent Mozambique.
Altitude range
1540–2000 m.
2000
1540
Distribution
Zimbabwe C Makoni Distr., Rusape, fl. & fr. 1.i.1935, Eyles 8385 (K; SRGH).Mozambique MS Chimanimani Mts., between Skeleton Pass and Namadima, 1540 m, fl. 30.xii.1959, Goodier & Phipps 344 (K; SRGH).Zimbabwe E Chimanimani Mts., c. 2000 m, fl. & fr. 31.i.1954, Ball 200 (K; SRGH).

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