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Polystachya similis

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Polystachya zanguebarica Rolfe [family ORCHIDACEAE]
Type of Polystachya similis Rchb.f. [family ORCHIDACEAE]
Isotype of Polystachya similis Rchb.f. [family ORCHIDACEAE]
Polystachya similis Rchb.f.
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Identification
Polystachya similis Rchb.f. [family ORCHIDACEAE ]
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Flora

Entry for POLYSTACHYA similis Reichb. f. [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
POLYSTACHYA similis Reichb. f. [family ORCHIDACEAE], Otia Bot. Hamb. ii. 112;—Bolus in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxv. 186, and Ic. Orch. Austr.-Afr. ii. t. 33; Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 37.
Information
stems tufted, narrowly fusiform, 1–2 1/2 in. long, 2–5-leaved; leaves oblong or elliptic-oblong, unequally and minutely bilobed, cuneate at the base, coriaceous 2–5 in. long, 1/2–1 1/4 in. broad; scapes 6–10 in. high, erect, rather stout, often somewhat branched above, slightly puberulous, with 2 or 3 narrow sheaths below; racemes or panicle-branches 1/2–1 1/4 in. long, 10–15-flowered; bracts deltoid-triangular, acute or acuminate, 1/12– 1/10 in. long; pedicels 1/6– 1/4 in. long; dorsal sepal ovate, subobtuse, 1/12 in. long; lateral sepals triangular-ovate, apiculate, 1/10 in. long; petals linear-oblong, apiculate, 1/12 in. long; lip 1/8 in. long, 3-lobed, broadly cuneate at the base; front lobe orbicular, crenulate, obtuse; side lobes broadly oblong, obtuse, very short; disc slightly verrucose; column stout, about half as long as the dorsal sepal. null
Distribution
EASTERN REGION Pondoland; mountains near the mouth of St. Johns River, 1000 ft., Flanagan in Herb. Bolus, 2551, 8732! Natal; Klip Fontein, Saunders, 4! Riet Valley, Mrs. Rathbone! Tongaat, Mrs. K. Saunders in Herb. Bolus, 6117, and without precise locality, Sanderson! Delagoa Bay; at Masinga, Schlechter, 12138!

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