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EULOPHIA Mechowii Durand & Schinz [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
EULOPHIA Mechowii Durand & Schinz [family ORCHIDACEAE], Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 23.
Orthochilus Mechowii Reichb. f. [family ORCHIDACEAE], in Flora, 1882, 532.
Information
Leaves linear-lanceolate, acuminate. Scape a little longer than the leaves; raceme densely capitate. Sepals and petals not described. Lip cuneate, trifid; side lobes retrorse, obtuse-angled; front lobe with a narrow isthmus, dilated, obtuse-angled, denticulate and subemarginate at the apex, velvety near the base; disc with a pair of keels, which become fimbriate upwards, and bear some linear or filiform appendages in front.
Distribution
Angola Lower Guinea Malange, Mechow, 300.
Notes
Only known to me from the original description.
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
EULOPHIA Mechowii Durand & Schinz [family ORCHIDACEAE], Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 23.
Orthochilus Mechowii Reichb. f. [family ORCHIDACEAE], in Flora, 1882, 532.
Information
Leaves linear-lanceolate, acuminate. Scape a little longer than the leaves; raceme densely capitate. Sepals and petals not described. Lip cuneate, trifid; side lobes retrorse, obtuse-angled; front lobe with a narrow isthmus, dilated, obtuse-angled, denticulate and subemarginate at the apex, velvety near the base; disc with a pair of keels, which become fimbriate upwards, and bear some linear or filiform appendages in front.
Distribution
Angola Lower Guinea Malange, Mechow, 300.
Notes
Only known to me from the original description.
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
EULOPHIA Mechowii Durand & Schinz [family ORCHIDACEAE], Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 23.
Orthochilus Mechowii Reichb. f. [family ORCHIDACEAE], in Flora, 1882, 532.
Information
Leaves linear-lanceolate, acuminate. Scape a little longer than the leaves; raceme densely capitate. Sepals and petals not described. Lip cuneate, trifid; side lobes retrorse, obtuse-angled; front lobe with a narrow isthmus, dilated, obtuse-angled, denticulate and subemarginate at the apex, velvety near the base; disc with a pair of keels, which become fimbriate upwards, and bear some linear or filiform appendages in front.
Distribution
Angola Lower Guinea Malange, Mechow, 300.
Notes
Only known to me from the original description.
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