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Pterygodium catholicum

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Identification
Pterygodium catholicum (L.) Sw. [family ORCHIDACEAE ]
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Flora

Entry for PTERYGODIUM catholicum Sw. [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
PTERYGODIUM catholicum Sw. [family ORCHIDACEAE], in Vet. Acad. Handl. Stockh. 1800, 218;—Thunb. Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 22; Ker in Quart. Journ. Sci. and Arts, vi. 46, t. 1, fig. 3; Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orch. 366; Drège, Zwei Pfl. Documente, 116; Krauss in Flora, 1845, 306, and Fl. Capund Natal. 158; Sond. in Linnæa, xx. 220; Bolus in Trans. S. Afr. Phil. Soc. v. 184, Orch. Cap. Penins. 184, and in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxv. 208; Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 117; Schlechter in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 1 re sér. vi. 813; Kränzl. Orch. Gen. et Sp. i. 856, excl. syn. Linn. f., and in Ann. Naturhist. Hofmus. Wien, xx. 10.
Ophrys catholica Linn. [family ORCHIDACEAE], Amœn. Acad. vi. 110, and Sp. Pl. ed. ii. 1344.
Ophrys alaris Linn. f. [family ORCHIDACEAE], Suppl. 404.
Arethusa alaris Thunb. [family ORCHIDACEAE], Prodr. 3.—
Orchis affinis, flore luteo Buxb. [family ORCHIDACEAE], Pl. Min. Cogn. Cent. iii. 13, t. 21.
Information
plant 1/2–1 ft. high; stem moderately stout, somewhat flexuous; leaves 2 or rarely 3, distant, sessile, sheathing at the base, somewhat spreading, oblong or elliptic-oblong, subobtuse or apiculate, the lower 2–5 in. long, upper much smaller; scapes 1/2–1 ft. high; spikes 1–2 in. long, loosely 3–8-flowered; bracts ovate-lanceolate, shortly acuminate, 5–7 lin. long; pedicels 4–5 lin. long; flowers large, pale sulphur-yellow, rarely with orange-red petals and lip; dorsal sepal ovate-lanceolate, subobtuse, subconcave, subacute, with a distinct rounded sac near the apex, 5 lin. long; lateral sepals widely spreading, obliquely ovate, shortly acuminate and curved at the apex, subsaccate at the base, 5 lin. long; petals cohering with the dorsal sepal into an expanded limb, very oblique, broadly elliptic-oblong, subacute at the inner angle, broadly auriculate at the base, with a crenulate outer margin, 5–6 lin. long; lip broadly rhomboid-orbicular, subobtuse, very undulate, reflexed, 2 lin. long; appendage ovate-oblong, obscurely 3-lobed about the middle, obtuse, recurved at the apex, base broad, upper half narrow and crenulate, 4 lin. long; column short; arms of the rostellum auriculate, concave, 1 1/2 lin. long. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Tulbagh Div.; Tulbagh, Pappe, 25! Schlechter. Worcester Div.; without precise locality, Cooper, 1672! 1698! Cape Div.; Hills and Flats near Cape Town, Thunberg! Wallich! Krauss, 1324, Zeyher, 3941! Prior! Milne, 2! Pappe, 24! Ecklon & Zeyher! Bunbury, 259! Alexander! Bolus, 3931! and in MacOwan & Bolus, Herb. Norm. Austr.-Afr. 174! Bowie! Bergius, Mund, Tyson, 2086, Kässner, Ecklon, 672! Wilms, 3658! Wolley-Dod, 501! Schlechter, 1339! Constantia Mountains, Zeyher! Rogers, 377! 448! Muizen Berg, Wolley-Dod, 1930! Waai Vley, Wolley-Dod, 2180! Red Hill, Mrs. Jameson! Simons Bay, Wright! MacGillivray, 470! Stellenbosch Div.; near Stellenbosch, Lloyd in Herb. Sanderson, 935! Caledon Div.; Genadendal, 3000–4000 ft., Drège, 1254 a! Swellendam Div.; near Swellendam, Bowie! Mossel Bay Div.; Attaquas Kloof, Gill! George Div.; near George, Bowie! Prior! Port Elizabeth Div.; Algoa Bay, Forbes!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Sparrman! Brown! Masson! Oldenburg, 85! Carmichael! Zeyher, 1573, partly! 3942! 3943! Harvey, 147! Thom, 38! 1175! Hesse, 4! Mund! Wright, 740!

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