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Listrostachys pertusa (Lindl.) Rchb.f. [family ORCHIDACEAE]

Date Updated: 30 April 2005

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Useful Plants of West Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol 4
Names
Listrostachys pertusa (Lindl.) Rchb.f. [family ORCHIDACEAE]
Uses
Medicines: genital stimulants/depressants Agri-horticulture: ornamental, cultivated or partially tended
Description
An epiphytic orchid with short thick creeping roots and stem to 15–25 cm high, leaves fleshy, flower-spike 10–12 cm long with numerous small greenish white flower, sometimes with minute red spots toward the base and with a red spur; on the trunk and large
References
References:1. Dalziel, 1937: 514. 2. Deighton 2552, 4690, K. 3. Hooker, WJ, 1850: tab. 4782, as Angraecum pertusum. 4. Lawler, 1984: 109.
Contributor
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)

Date Updated: 30 April 2005

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Useful Plants of West Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol 4
Names
Listrostachys pertusa (Lindl.) Rchb.f. [family ORCHIDACEAE]
Uses
Medicines: genital stimulants/depressants Agri-horticulture: ornamental, cultivated or partially tended
Description
An epiphytic orchid with short thickcreeping roots and stem to 15–25 cm high, leaves fleshy,flower-spike 10–12 cm long with numerous small greenish whiteflower, sometimes with minute red spots toward the base and with ared spur; on the trunk and large
References
References:1. Dalziel, 1937: 514. 2. Deighton 2552, 4690,K. 3. Hooker, WJ, 1850: tab. 4782, as Angraecum pertusum. 4.Lawler, 1984: 109.
Contributor
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Listrostachys pertusa (Lindl.) Rchb.f. [family ORCHIDACEAE]
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