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Penthea reflexa

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Isolectotype of Penthea reflexa Lindl. [family ORCHIDACEAE]

Isotype of Penthea reflexa Lindl. [family ORCHIDACEAE]

Filed as Disa reflexa (Lindl.) Rchb. f. [family ORCHIDACEAE]

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Disa reflexa (Lindl.) Rchb. f. [family ORCHIDACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by HBG-formal name change, 2006 Penthea reflexa Lindl. [family ORCHIDACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet,

Flora

Entry for PENTHEA filicornis Lindl. [family ORCHIDACEAE]

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)

Reference Sources

Flora Capensis, Vol 5, Part 3, page 3, (1913) Author: (By R. A. ROLFE.)

PENTHEA filicornis Lindl. [family ORCHIDACEAE], Gen. & Sp. Orch. 361;—Drège, Zwei Pfl. Documente, 82, 84, 114; Sond. in Linnæa, xx. 220.

PENTHEA reflexa Lindl. [family ORCHIDACEAE], Gen. & Sp. Orch. 361; Drège, Zwei Pfl. Documente, 125; Krauss in Flora, 1845, 306, and Beitr. Fl. Capund Natal. 158.

Orchis filicornis Linn. f. [family ORCHIDACEAE], Suppl. 400; Murr. Syst. Veg. xiv. 811.

Disa filicornis Thunb. [family ORCHIDACEAE], Fl. Cap. i. 87, and Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 17; N. E. Br. in Gard. Chron. 1885, xxiv. 232; Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 103; Kränzl. Orch. Gen. et Sp. i. 741; Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xxxi. 228; Bolus, Ic. Orch. Austr.-Afr. ii. t. 68.

Disa patens Sw. [family ORCHIDACEAE], in Vet. Acad. Handl. Stockh. 1800, 214 “partly.” Bolus in Trans. S. Afr. Phil. Soc. v. 157, Orch. Cap. Penins. 157, and in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxv. 200.

Disa reflexa Reichb. f. [family ORCHIDACEAE], in Flora, 1865, 182.

plant 4–10 in. high; stem rather stout; leaves radical and cauline, numerous, suberect, linear or narrowly lanceolate-linear, acute, narrowed upwards into the bracts, 1/2–1 1/2 in. long; scapes 4–10 in. high, with narrow acute sheaths above; spikes short, loosely subcorymbose, 2–8-flowered; bracts lanceolate, acute or acuminate, 1/2–1 in. long; pedicels 1/3–1 in. long; flowers rather large, pink, spotted with purple, and the lateral sepals suffused with purple; dorsal sepal galeate, obovate-spathulate, apiculate, 6–8 lin. long; spur reduced to a nearly obsolete sac; lateral sepals oblong, subobtuse or shortly apiculate, spreading, 6–8 lin. long; petals falcate-oblong, subobtuse, with a rounded basal auricle in front, 3–4 lin. long; lip narrowly linear, 3–4 lin. long; column 4 lin. long; anther suberect, furnished with a broad petaloid wing-like appendage on each side; rostellum erect, 3-partite, with subdivaricate side lobes; front lobe shorter and concave; stigma pulvinate. null

COAST REGION Tulbagh Div.; near Tulbagh, Zeyher. Worcester Div.; mountains near De Liefde, 2000–3000 ft., Drège, 1233 b! Cape Div.; Cape Flats, 50–100 ft., Pappe, 7! Ecklon, 245! Bunbury! on mountains, MacOwan & Bolus, Herb. Norm. Austr.-Afr. 163! Muizenberg Mountain, 1100 ft., Bolus, 3365! Silvermine Valley, Cape Peninsula, Wolley-Dod, 2215! Table Mountain, 2500 ft., Zeyher, Krauss, Schlechter, 66. Stellenbosch Div.; Lowrys Pass, 1000–2000 ft., Drège, 1233 a! Caledon Div.; Zwart Berg, near Caledon, Zeyher, 3931! near Zonder Einde River, Pappe, 4! Genadendal, Prior! Houw Hoek, 1500 ft., Bowie! Schlechter, 9413! near Palmiet River, Leibold; Steenbrass River, Ecklon & Zeyher. Riversdale Div.; Langeberg Range, near Riversdale, 1500–2500 ft., Schlechter, 1909. George Div.; near George, 700 ft., Bowie! Schlechter, 5865! Penther, Krook. Knysna Div.; Bosch River, under 5000 ft., Drège, 8281! hills near Plettenbergs Bay, Schlechter, Penther, Krook, near Knysna River, Bowie!EASTERN REGION Natal; Oakford, Rehmann, 521!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Auge! Masson! Mund! Zeyher, 1578! Ecklon & Zeyher, 105! Hesse! Harvey, 145! Rogers!

This species has been much confused with the preceding. Addenda : Swartz included two plants under his Disa patens, viz. Serapias patens, Thunb., and Orchis filicornis, Linn., but the former is identical with Ophrys patens, Linn., on which Disa tenuifolia, Sw., was based. This original mistake led to others, which were rectified in the synonymy of Penthea patens and P. filicornis.