Cheirostylis divina (Guinea) Summerh. 1953

Collection Sheet by © D W Thomas and Kew's Plants of the World Website

LATE EARLIER

Common NameTheDivine Cheirostylis

Flower Size

Found in Sierra Leone, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon and Cameroon in montane forests at elevations around 500 meters as a miniature sized, hot to warm growing terrestrial with pale green leaves that blooms in the late fall and early winter on an erect, terminal, 6" [15 cm] long, several flowered inflorescence and carrying white flowers

" The bilobed stelidia, referred to as the most important character, are evidently the two stelidia together with the two lobes of the rostellum, which are placed in pairs, one pair in front of the other and may be interpreted as being parts of the same structure. In all general floral characters the present species agrees with Cheirostylis, the slight toothing of the labellum lobes being clearly intermediate between conditions in species like C lepida with entire lobes and those of many Asiatic species where the lobes are strongly toothed or even palmately lobulate." Summerhayes 1953

Synonyms Mariarisqueta divina Guinea 1946

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Ensayo Geobot. Guin. Continent. Espan.: 268 Guinea 1946

* Kew Bull. 8: 131 Summerhayes 1953

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