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MYSTACIDIUM gracile Harv. [family ORCHIDACEAE]
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
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
MYSTACIDIUM gracile Harv. [family ORCHIDACEAE], Thes. Cap. ii. 48, t. 174;—Bolus in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxv. 187; Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 53.
Aëranthus gracilis Reichb. f. [family ], in Flora, 1867, 117.
Information
a leafless epiphyte, with very short stems and numerous slender flexuous roots; scapes somewhat arching, very slender, 1–1 3/4 in. long, racemes one-sided, lax, 4–8-flowered; bracts obliquely cup-shaped, about 1/12 in. long; pedicels slender, 1/4 in. long; sepals and petals subconnivent, ovate-anceolate, subobtuse, about 1/8 in. long; lip ovate-oblong, subobtuse, about as long as the petals, with very short side lobes at the mouth of the spur; spur curved, 3/4 in. long, funnel-shaped at the mouth, narrowed and very slender above; column short and stout; rostellum 3-partite, front lobe triangular, acute, side lobes clavate, with papillose apex; pollinia subglobose, attached by slender curved stipites to separate oblong glands. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Bedford Div.; Kaga Berg Range, in primæval forest, 4500 ft., Weale in Herb. Hauf, 16338! Stutterheim Div.; Klaklazele Berg, Cooper, 271!EASTERN REGION Natal; Dargle Farm, Mrs. Fannin, 95! and without precise locality, Sanderson!
Notes
Bolus (Journ. Linn. Soc. xxv. 187) includes Mystacidium Meirax, Bolus (Aëranthus Meirax, Reichb. f. in Flora, 1885, 540) as doubtfully South African, but it was described in a paper on Comoro Island Orchids, and probably came from there, though no locality is given.
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
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
MYSTACIDIUM gracile Harv. [family ORCHIDACEAE], Thes. Cap. ii. 48, t. 174;—Bolus in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxv. 187; Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 53.
Aëranthus gracilis Reichb. f. [family ], in Flora, 1867, 117.
Information
a leafless epiphyte, with very short stems and numerous slender flexuous roots; scapes somewhat arching, very slender, 1–1 3/4 in. long, racemes one-sided, lax, 4–8-flowered; bracts obliquely cup-shaped, about 1/12 in. long; pedicels slender, 1/4 in. long; sepals and petals subconnivent, ovate-anceolate, subobtuse, about 1/8 in. long; lip ovate-oblong, subobtuse, about as long as the petals, with very short side lobes at the mouth of the spur; spur curved, 3/4 in. long, funnel-shaped at the mouth, narrowed and very slender above; column short and stout; rostellum 3-partite, front lobe triangular, acute, side lobes clavate, with papillose apex; pollinia subglobose, attached by slender curved stipites to separate oblong glands. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Bedford Div.; Kaga Berg Range, in primæval forest, 4500 ft., Weale in Herb. Hauf, 16338! Stutterheim Div.; Klaklazele Berg, Cooper, 271!EASTERN REGION Natal; Dargle Farm, Mrs. Fannin, 95! and without precise locality, Sanderson!
Notes
Bolus (Journ. Linn. Soc. xxv. 187) includes Mystacidium Meirax, Bolus (Aëranthus Meirax, Reichb. f. in Flora, 1885, 540) as doubtfully South African, but it was described in a paper on Comoro Island Orchids, and probably came from there, though no locality is given.
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
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
MYSTACIDIUM gracile Harv. [family ORCHIDACEAE], Thes. Cap. ii. 48, t. 174;—Bolus in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxv. 187; Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 53.
Aëranthus gracilis Reichb. f. [family ], in Flora, 1867, 117.
Information
a leafless epiphyte, with very short stems and numerous slender flexuous roots; scapes somewhat arching, very slender, 1–1 3/4 in. long, racemes one-sided, lax, 4–8-flowered; bracts obliquely cup-shaped, about 1/12 in. long; pedicels slender, 1/4 in. long; sepals and petals subconnivent, ovate-anceolate, subobtuse, about 1/8 in. long; lip ovate-oblong, subobtuse, about as long as the petals, with very short side lobes at the mouth of the spur; spur curved, 3/4 in. long, funnel-shaped at the mouth, narrowed and very slender above; column short and stout; rostellum 3-partite, front lobe triangular, acute, side lobes clavate, with papillose apex; pollinia subglobose, attached by slender curved stipites to separate oblong glands. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Bedford Div.; Kaga Berg Range, in primæval forest, 4500 ft., Weale in Herb. Hauf, 16338! Stutterheim Div.; Klaklazele Berg, Cooper, 271!EASTERN REGION Natal; Dargle Farm, Mrs. Fannin, 95! and without precise locality, Sanderson!
Notes
Bolus (Journ. Linn. Soc. xxv. 187) includes Mystacidium Meirax, Bolus (Aëranthus Meirax, Reichb. f. in Flora, 1885, 540) as doubtfully South African, but it was described in a paper on Comoro Island Orchids, and probably came from there, though no locality is given.
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