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LIPARIS abyssinica A. Rich. [family ORCHIDACEAE]
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 7, page 12, (1898) Author: (By R. A. Rolfe.)
Names
LIPARIS abyssinica A. Rich. [family ORCHIDACEAE], Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 281. —Ridl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxii. 265.
Sturmia abyssinica Reichb. f. [family ], in Walp. Ann. iii. 527.
Information
Pseudobulbs covered with loose sheaths, 2–3-leaved. Leaves oval or oval-oblong, acute, flat, with sheathing base. Scapes few-flowered. Bracts oval-lanceolate, acute, equalling the ovary. Flowers purple. Dorsal sepal lanceolate, subobtuse; lateral ones half oval, obtuse, united to above the middle. Petals linear. Lip with broad semicanaliculate base, linguiform, obtuse, entire and fleshy above, carunculate above the base.
Distribution
Abyssinia Nile Land Mt. Sholoda, near Adowa, Quartin Dillon.
Notes
Only known to me from the original description. The author compares it with the Mauritian L. purpurascens, Lindl., and the South Indian L. alata, A. Rich, remarking that the leaves are not undulate as in the former, and the rhachis not winged nor the lateral sepals free as in the latter.
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 7, page 12, (1898) Author: (By R. A. Rolfe.)
Names
LIPARIS abyssinica A. Rich. [family ORCHIDACEAE], Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 281. —Ridl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxii. 265.
Sturmia abyssinica Reichb. f. [family ], in Walp. Ann. iii. 527.
Information
Pseudobulbs covered with loose sheaths, 2–3-leaved. Leaves oval or oval-oblong, acute, flat, with sheathing base. Scapes few-flowered. Bracts oval-lanceolate, acute, equalling the ovary. Flowers purple. Dorsal sepal lanceolate, subobtuse; lateral ones half oval, obtuse, united to above the middle. Petals linear. Lip with broad semicanaliculate base, linguiform, obtuse, entire and fleshy above, carunculate above the base.
Distribution
Abyssinia Nile Land Mt. Sholoda, near Adowa, Quartin Dillon.
Notes
Only known to me from the original description. The author compares it with the Mauritian L. purpurascens, Lindl., and the South Indian L. alata, A. Rich, remarking that the leaves are not undulate as in the former, and the rhachis not winged nor the lateral sepals free as in the latter.
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 7, page 12, (1898) Author: (By R. A. Rolfe.)
Names
LIPARIS abyssinica A. Rich. [family ORCHIDACEAE], Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 281. —Ridl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxii. 265.
Sturmia abyssinica Reichb. f. [family ], in Walp. Ann. iii. 527.
Information
Pseudobulbs covered with loose sheaths, 2–3-leaved. Leaves oval or oval-oblong, acute, flat, with sheathing base. Scapes few-flowered. Bracts oval-lanceolate, acute, equalling the ovary. Flowers purple. Dorsal sepal lanceolate, subobtuse; lateral ones half oval, obtuse, united to above the middle. Petals linear. Lip with broad semicanaliculate base, linguiform, obtuse, entire and fleshy above, carunculate above the base.
Distribution
Abyssinia Nile Land Mt. Sholoda, near Adowa, Quartin Dillon.
Notes
Only known to me from the original description. The author compares it with the Mauritian L. purpurascens, Lindl., and the South Indian L. alata, A. Rich, remarking that the leaves are not undulate as in the former, and the rhachis not winged nor the lateral sepals free as in the latter.
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