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Nervilia purpurata

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Identification
Nervilia purpurata sensu J.Stewart et al. [family ORCHIDACEAE ]
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Flora

Entry for Nervilia kotschyi (Rchb. f.) Schltr. [family ORCHIDACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of West Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of West Tropical Africa, Vol 3, Part 1,
Names
Nervilia kotschyi (Rchb. f.) Schltr. [family ORCHIDACEAE], in Engl., Bot. Jahrb. 45: 404 (1911).
Pogonia kotschyi Rchb. f. [family ORCHIDACEAE], (1864)-F.T.A7: 187
Nervilia purpurata (Rchb. f. & Sond.) Schltr [family ORCHIDACEAE], (1911)-F.W.T.A., ed1, 2: 420.
Information
A slenderterrestrialherb 4-12 in. high, with a short raceme of 2-5 pale olive-green flowers with purple veins on the lip; leaf broadly ovate, short-petioled, lamina 3-7 in. long.
Habitat
terrestrial
Range
Eastwards to Sudan and Uganda, south to Angola, Mozambique and Transvaal.
Distribution
Mali: Kita Massif Jaeger 2221!N. Nig.: Naraguta F.R., Plateau Prov.

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