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Platycoryne crocea

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Isotype of Habenaria ochrantha Schlechter [family ORCHIDACEAE]
Isosyntype of Habenaria crocea Rchb.f. [family ORCHIDACEAE]
Isotype of Habenaria elegantula Kraenzl. [family ORCHIDACEAE]
Isosyntype of Habenaria crocea Schweinf. ex Rchb. f. [family ORCHIDACEAE]
Isotype of Habenaria elegantula Kränzl. [family ORCHIDACEAE]
Syntype of Habenaria crocea Schweinf. ex Rchb..f. [family ORCHIDACEAE]
Type of Habenaria crocea Rchb. f. [family ORCHIDACEAE]
Type of Habenaria montiselgon Schltr. [family ORCHIDACEAE]
Isotype of Habenaria ochrantha Schlechter [family ORCHIDACEAE]
Isotype of Habenaria elegantula Kraenzl. [family ORCHIDACEAE]
Type of Habenaria montis-elgon Schltr. [family ORCHIDACEAE]
Platycoryne crocea Rolfe [family ORCHIDACEAE]
Isotype of Habenaria ochrantha Schltr. [family ORCHIDACEAE]
Type of Habenaria ochrantha Schltr. [family ORCHIDACEAE]
Filed as Platycoryne crocea (Schweinf. ex Rchb.f.) Rolfe [family ORCHIDACEAE]
Type of Habenaria montiselgon Schltr. [family ORCHIDACEAE]
Type of Habenaria elegantula Kraenzl. [family ORCHIDACEAE]
Filed as Platycoryne crocea (Rchb.f.) Rolfe [family ORCHIDACEAE]
Type of Habenaria ochrantha Schltr. [family ORCHIDACEAE]
Isotype of Platycoryne crocea (Rchb.f.) Rolfe [family ORCHIDACEAE]
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Identification
Isotype of Platycoryne crocea (Rchb.f.) Rolfe [family ORCHIDACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Habenaria unrecorded
  • Platycoryne ochrantha
  • Habenaria ochrantha
  • Habenaria montiselgon
  • Habenaria elegantula
  • Platycoryne montiselgon
  • Habenaria crocea
  • Platycoryne elegantula
  • Platycoryne not on sheet
  • Platycoryne crocea
  • Habenaria montis-elgon

Flora

Entry for PLATYCORYNE crocea 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
PLATYCORYNE crocea Rolfe [family ORCHIDACEAE]
Habenaria crocea Schweinf. ex Reichb. f. [family ], Otia Bot. Hamb. i. 57; Kränzl. in Engl. Jahrb. xvi. 208.
Information
Plant slender, 1–1 1/4 ft. high. Leaves about 7, cauline, lanceolate, acute or acuminate, 3/4–1 1/4 in. long, 1 1/2–2 lin. broad, decreasing upwards. Racemes short or subcapitate, 3–4-flowered. Bracts ovate-oblong, acuminate, 3–6 lin. long. Pedicels 5–6 lin. long. Flowers orange-buff. Dorsal sepal broadly ovate, obtuse, cucullate, 2 3/4 lin. long; lateral ovate-oblong, obtuse, as long as the dorsal sepal. Petals ovate-oblong, subobtuse, 2 1/2 lin. long. Lip trilobed; side lobes small, triangular, subobtuse, 1/2 lin. long; front lobe ovate-lanceolate, subobtuse, 2 1/2 lin. long; spur 7 1/2 lin. long, slender below, slightly thickened above. Stigmatic processes short, subglobose, deflexed, approximate. Anther channels stout, 3/4 lin. long. Rostellum triangular, obtuse, fleshy, 1/2 lin. long.
Distribution
British East Africa Nile Land Niam-niam, South of the Lehssy River, in wet grassy places, Schweinfurth, 3968!

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