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Orchis tripetaloides

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Name

Identification
Orchis tripetaloides L.f. [family ORCHIDACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet, Disa excelsa Sw. [family ORCHIDACEAE ] Verified by Smith, Sir James Edward,
Related name
  • Orchis tripetaloides
  • Disa excelsa

Flora

Entry for Disa tripetaloides N. E. Br. [family ORCHIDACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 5, Part 3, page 3, (1913) Author: (By R. A. ROLFE.)
Names
Disa tripetaloides N. E. Br. [family ORCHIDACEAE], in Gard. Chron. 1889, v. 360;—Bolus in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxv. 199; Bot. Mag. t. 7206; Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 109; Kränzl. Orch. Gen. et Sp. i. 788, and in Ann. Naturhist. Hofmus. Wien, xx. 8; Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xxxi. 263.
Disa venosa Lindl. [family ORCHIDACEAE], Gen. & Sp. Orch. 351, not of Sw.
Disa excelsa Sw. [family ORCHIDACEAE], in Vet. Acad. Handl. Stockh. 1800, 213; Thunb. Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 14, partly.
Orchis tripetaloides Linn. f. [family ORCHIDACEAE], Suppl. 398; Murr. Syst. Veg. xiv. 807.
Satyrium excelsum Thunb. [family ORCHIDACEAE], Prodr. 5, partly.
Information
plant 3/4–1 1/2 ft. high; stem moderately stout; leaves radical, usually numerous, arranged in a rosulate tuft, lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, acute or shortly acuminate, 1 1/4–4 in. long; scapes 3/4–1 1/2 ft. high, with several narrow acute sheaths; spikes 2–5 in. long, lax, usually many-flowered; bracts elliptic-lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, acute, 1/2– 3/4 in. long; pedicels 3/4–1 in. long; flowers medium-sized, pale pink or white, with carmine spots on the sepals (yellow in var. aurata); dorsal sepal galeate, broadly ovate or orbicular-ovate, obtuse, 4–5 lin. long; spur broadly conical or oblong from a broadly conical base, obtuse, one-third to half as long as the limb; lateral sepals ovate-oblong or ovate-elliptic, obtuse, 4–5 lin. long; petals falcate-oblong, obtuse, about 2 lin. long; lip linear or oblong-linear, obtuse, about 2 lin. long; column short; anther reclinate; rostellum erect, tall, emarginate at the apex, with short side lobes; stigma pulvinate. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Stellenbosch Div.; Hottentots Holland Mountains, Bowie! Zeyher. Caledon Div.; Knoflooks Kraal and Little Houw Hoek, 1000–3000 ft., Zeyher, 3916! Houw Hoek, 2500 ft., Schlechter, 9410! Bowie! trunks of fallen trees in Grietjesgat River, near Palmiet River, 800 ft., Bolus, 4209! Riversdale Div.; by mountain rivulets near Riversdale, Schlechter. George Div.; Wolf Drift, Malgaten River, Burchell, 6123! George, Prior! Bowie! Penther, 101; near rivulets above Montagu Pass, 4000 ft., Schlechter, 5843, Krook. Knysna Div.; mountains near Knysna, 200 ft., Newdigate in MacOwan, Herb. Austr.-Afr. 1650! Penther, 2. Uniondale Div.; Lange Kloof, Thunberg! Humansdorp Div.; Kromme River, Thunberg! Humansdorp, Harvey, 896! Uitenhage Div.; Waterfall on Van Stadens Berg, MacOwan, 1095! at the sources of Bulk River and Van Stadens River, MacOwan, 1095! Var. β, Swellendam Div.; Zuurbraak, Schlechter, 2148! on a mountain peak near Swellendam, Burchell, 7409! wet mountain slopes near Swellendam, 2800 ft., Bolus, 7339! and in MacOwan & Bolus, Herb. Norm. Austr.-Afr. 1098!EASTERN REGION Natal; on wet banks, Murchison, Alfred Co., 2000 ft., Wood, 1981!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Sparrman! Brown! Masson! Carmichael!

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