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Stenoglottis fimbriata

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Identification
Stenoglottis fimbriata Lindl. [family ORCHIDACEAE ]
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Flora

Entry for STENOGLOTTIS fimbriata Lindl. [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
STENOGLOTTIS fimbriata Lindl. [family ORCHIDACEAE], in Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. ii. 210;—Drège, Zwei Pfl. Documente, 153; Harv. Thes. Cap. i. 36, t. 56; Bot. Mag. t. 5872; Gard. Chron. 1889, vi. 438; 1894, xvi. 563, in note; Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 68; Schlechter in Engl. Jahrb. xx. Beibl. 50, 30; Kränzl. Orch. Gen. et Sp. i. 567, excl. syn.
Information
leaves numerous, arranged in a dense rosette, oblong or narrowly lanceolate-oblong, acute, slightly undulate at the margin, all spreading, slightly recurved at the apex, bright green, usually with few or numerous blackish or purple-black blotches, mostly arranged in transverse bars, 1 1/2–3 1/2 in. long, 1/3–1 1/4 in. broad; scapes erect, slender, 1/2–1 ft. high, with 2 or 3 lanceolate sheaths; racemes 1 1/2–6 in. long, usually lax, many-flowered; bracts lanceolate, acuminate, 1/6– 1/3 in. long; pedicels 1/4– 1/3 in. long; flowers light purple with a few elongated dark purple blotches on the lip; sepals broadly ovate, obtuse or subacute, 1/6 in. long, lateral somewhat falcate; petals ovate, subobtuse, obscurely erose at the margin, slightly shorter and broader than the sepals; lip linear-oblong, 1/4– 1/3 in. long, 3-fid or 3-partite, rarely with a pair of short additional lateral teeth; column short and broad; capsule narrowly oblong, 1/3– 1/2 in. long. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Stockenstrom Div.; in woods near Stockenstrom, 2000 ft., Scully in MacOwan & Bolus, Herb. Norm. Austr.-Afr., 690! Kat Berg, 2500–3000 ft., Baur, 1105! Hutton! Albany Div.; near Grahamstown, 2200 ft., MacOwan, 515! Howisons Poort, Hutton!EASTERN REGION Transkei; Krielis Country, Bowker, 217! Pondoland; between St. John's River and Umsikaba River, under 1000 ft., Drège, 4574! Natal; Umcomaas River, Gerrard, 1536! ravines of Townhill, Maritzburg, 2500 ft., Sanderson, 503! Umtshunga Cutting, 2000 ft., Sanderson, 735! Shafton, Howick, Mrs. Hutton, 7! Itafamasi, Wood, 854! Inanda, Wood, 548! 858! Highlands, Schlechter! Ingoma, Gerrard, 1539! Table Mountain, Sanderson, 897! Sterk Spruit, Sanderson, 897! and without precise locality, Gueinzius! Var. β, Natal; Mount West, Schlechter, 6820.KALAHARI REGION Transvaal; Houtbosch, Rehmann, 5855! 5856! Nelson, 377! Schlechter, 4471; Spitz Kop, near Lydenberg, Wilms, 1384!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Zeyher, 3921! Mrs. Bowker!
Notes
A very variable species. Some of the Natal specimens have unspotted leaves, and at first sight look different from the form figured in the Botanical Magazine. Examination of plants in the field might throw some light on the cause of this variation.

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