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Schizochilus zeyheri

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Identification
Schizochilus zeyheri Sond. [family ORCHIDACEAE ]
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Entry for SCHIZOCHILUS Zeyheri Sond. [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
SCHIZOCHILUS Zeyheri Sond. [family ORCHIDACEAE], in Linnæa, xix. 78;—Bolus in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxv. 205, and Ic. Orch. Austr.-Afr. i. t. 18 (excl. Sanderson and Wood, 478); Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 116.
Brachycorythis Zeyheri Reichb. f. [family ORCHIDACEAE], in Flora, 1867, 117.
Platanthera Zeyheri Schlechter [family ORCHIDACEAE], in Engl. Jahrb. xx. Beibl. 50, 12.
Information
plant 1/2–1 1/4 ft. high, with 2 ovoid tubers; leaves 3–8, radical or subradical, linear or linear-oblong, obtuse or subacute, 1–4 1/2 in. long, 2–6 lin. broad; scapes 1/2–1 1/4 ft. high, with 3 to 6 lanceolate sheaths; racemes oblong, somewhat broad, 3/4–2 in. long, rather dense; bracts ovate or ovate-anceolate, acuminate, 1/4– 1/3 in. long; flowers yellow or rarely porcelain-white with a yellow lip; sepals ovate-oblong, subobtuse or apiculate, over 1/4 in. long, prominently 3-nerved; petals narrowly ovate, acute, more than half as long as the sepals, 1-nerved; lip about as long as the sepals, pubescent, 3-lobed; side lobes falcate-oblong, semiovate, subobtuse; front lobe linear-oblong, obtuse or subacute, about twice as long as the side lobes; disc with a small erect tubercle at the base; spur cylindrical or subcompressed, oblong, obtuse, about half as long as the limb; column very short. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Fort Beaufort Div.; Winterberg Range, Zeyher! Mrs. Barber, 31! 240! 518! Stockenstrom Div.; in marshes at the summit of Elands Berg, 6000 ft., Scully, 405! and in MacOwan & Bolus, Herb. Norm. Austr.-Afr., 1378! Kat Berg, 4000–5000 ft., Zeyher, 56! King Williamstown Div.; Perie Forest, Sim.EASTERN REGION Transkei; Fakus Territory, Sutherland! top of Bazeia Mountain, 4000 ft., Baur, 630! 631! Griqualand East; Klein Pot River, Maclear District, 4550 ft., Galpin, 6841! near Kokstad, Tyson, 1600. Natal; above Karkloof, Buchanan in Herb. Sanderson, 1080! and without precise locality, McKen, 3!KALAHARI REGION Orange River Colony; Oliviers Hoek Pass, summit of the Drakensberg Range, Wood, 3425!

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