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BRACHYCORYTHIS pleistophylla Reichb. f. [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
BRACHYCORYTHIS pleistophylla Reichb. f. [family ORCHIDACEAE], Otia Bot. Hamb. ii. 104.
Information
Plant 1 1/4–2 1/4 ft. high, strict, densely leafy, turning black in drying. Leaves oblong-lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, very acuminate or aristate-acuminate, 1–2 in. long, decreasing into sheaths below and bracts above. Racemes elongate, 4–8 in. long, dense, many-flowered. Bracts lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, 6–9 lin. long. Pedicels 4–6 lin. long. Dorsal sepal ovate, subacute, 3 lin. long; lateral semiovate, acute, 3 lin. long. Petals broadly ovate, obtuse or truncate, 3 1/2 lin. long. Lip 6 lin. long, elliptic-obovate from a narrow, slightly gibbous base, bilobed above; lobes oblong, obtuse, sometimes with a minute tooth in the sinus; disc carinate, with a pair of erect linear calli near the base. Column stout, 3/4 lin. long.
Distribution
Nyasaland Mozamb. Dist. Shire Highlands, near Blantyre, Last! Mt. Sotchi, Scott-Elliot, 8570! Mlanje, Whyte! 7000 ft., McClounie! and without precise locality, Buchanan, 1345!Portuguese East Africa Mozamb. Dist. Morambala Mountain, near Shire River, 3000 ft., Kirk!
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
BRACHYCORYTHIS pleistophylla Reichb. f. [family ORCHIDACEAE], Otia Bot. Hamb. ii. 104.
Information
Plant 1 1/4–2 1/4 ft. high, strict, densely leafy, turning black in drying. Leaves oblong-lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, very acuminate or aristate-acuminate, 1–2 in. long, decreasing into sheaths below and bracts above. Racemes elongate, 4–8 in. long, dense, many-flowered. Bracts lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, 6–9 lin. long. Pedicels 4–6 lin. long. Dorsal sepal ovate, subacute, 3 lin. long; lateral semiovate, acute, 3 lin. long. Petals broadly ovate, obtuse or truncate, 3 1/2 lin. long. Lip 6 lin. long, elliptic-obovate from a narrow, slightly gibbous base, bilobed above; lobes oblong, obtuse, sometimes with a minute tooth in the sinus; disc carinate, with a pair of erect linear calli near the base. Column stout, 3/4 lin. long.
Distribution
Nyasaland Mozamb. Dist. Shire Highlands, near Blantyre, Last! Mt. Sotchi, Scott-Elliot, 8570! Mlanje, Whyte! 7000 ft., McClounie! and without precise locality, Buchanan, 1345!Portuguese East Africa Mozamb. Dist. Morambala Mountain, near Shire River, 3000 ft., Kirk!
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
BRACHYCORYTHIS pleistophylla Reichb. f. [family ORCHIDACEAE], Otia Bot. Hamb. ii. 104.
Information
Plant 1 1/4–2 1/4 ft. high, strict, densely leafy, turning black in drying. Leaves oblong-lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, very acuminate or aristate-acuminate, 1–2 in. long, decreasing into sheaths below and bracts above. Racemes elongate, 4–8 in. long, dense, many-flowered. Bracts lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, 6–9 lin. long. Pedicels 4–6 lin. long. Dorsal sepal ovate, subacute, 3 lin. long; lateral semiovate, acute, 3 lin. long. Petals broadly ovate, obtuse or truncate, 3 1/2 lin. long. Lip 6 lin. long, elliptic-obovate from a narrow, slightly gibbous base, bilobed above; lobes oblong, obtuse, sometimes with a minute tooth in the sinus; disc carinate, with a pair of erect linear calli near the base. Column stout, 3/4 lin. long.
Distribution
Nyasaland Mozamb. Dist. Shire Highlands, near Blantyre, Last! Mt. Sotchi, Scott-Elliot, 8570! Mlanje, Whyte! 7000 ft., McClounie! and without precise locality, Buchanan, 1345!Portuguese East Africa Mozamb. Dist. Morambala Mountain, near Shire River, 3000 ft., Kirk!
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