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HOLOTHRIX Usambaræ Kränzl. [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
HOLOTHRIX Usambaræ Kränzl. [family ORCHIDACEAE], in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 248.
Information
Leaves 2, subopposite, or rarely 3, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, acute or acuminate. Scapes about 9 in. long, naked below, sparsely pilose above with glanduliferous hairs, and two or three minute sheaths; spikes secund, 6–20-flowered. Bracts lanceolate, acuminate, one-third as long as the ovary. Dorsal sepal broadly ovate, cucullate, acute; lateral semioblong, with arching nerves, acute. Petals much smaller than the sepals, oblong, acute, one-nerved. Lip simple, cuneate; apex retuse, tridentate or obscurely trilobed; spur filiform, deflexed or incurved, 1/2– 2/3 as long as the ovary. Column short and stout.
Distribution
German East Africa Mozamb. Dist. Usambara; high region, in gravel, Holst, 391.
Notes
Only known to me from the original description, but said to have the habit of H. orthoceras, Reichb. f.
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
HOLOTHRIX Usambaræ Kränzl. [family ORCHIDACEAE], in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 248.
Information
Leaves 2, subopposite, or rarely 3, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, acute or acuminate. Scapes about 9 in. long, naked below, sparsely pilose above with glanduliferous hairs, and two or three minute sheaths; spikes secund, 6–20-flowered. Bracts lanceolate, acuminate, one-third as long as the ovary. Dorsal sepal broadly ovate, cucullate, acute; lateral semioblong, with arching nerves, acute. Petals much smaller than the sepals, oblong, acute, one-nerved. Lip simple, cuneate; apex retuse, tridentate or obscurely trilobed; spur filiform, deflexed or incurved, 1/2– 2/3 as long as the ovary. Column short and stout.
Distribution
German East Africa Mozamb. Dist. Usambara; high region, in gravel, Holst, 391.
Notes
Only known to me from the original description, but said to have the habit of H. orthoceras, Reichb. f.
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
HOLOTHRIX Usambaræ Kränzl. [family ORCHIDACEAE], in Engl. Jahrb. xix. 248.
Information
Leaves 2, subopposite, or rarely 3, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, acute or acuminate. Scapes about 9 in. long, naked below, sparsely pilose above with glanduliferous hairs, and two or three minute sheaths; spikes secund, 6–20-flowered. Bracts lanceolate, acuminate, one-third as long as the ovary. Dorsal sepal broadly ovate, cucullate, acute; lateral semioblong, with arching nerves, acute. Petals much smaller than the sepals, oblong, acute, one-nerved. Lip simple, cuneate; apex retuse, tridentate or obscurely trilobed; spur filiform, deflexed or incurved, 1/2– 2/3 as long as the ovary. Column short and stout.
Distribution
German East Africa Mozamb. Dist. Usambara; high region, in gravel, Holst, 391.
Notes
Only known to me from the original description, but said to have the habit of H. orthoceras, Reichb. f.
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