!Thulinia albolutea P.J.Cribb 1985
TYPE Drawing by © Cribb and Kew Bulletin 40 1985
Photo by © Aluka
Common Name or Meaning The Whitish Yellow Thulinia
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Tanzania in the Nguru Mountains at elevations of 1900 to 2100 meters in upland grasslands on steep rocky slopes as a miniature sized, cool growing terrestrial with a bsal tuber giving rise to an erect, slender stem and carrying to 7, suberect to arcuate, narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, basally clasping leaves that blooms in the winter on an erect, 3.6" [to 9 cm] long, few flwoered, slender, wiry inflorescence.
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References W3 Tropicos Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Tropical East Africa Orchidaceae Part 3 Cribb 1989; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 40 pg 2492 - 2564 Brieger 2000 drawing fide; Genera Orchidacearum Vol 2 Part One Pridgeon, Cribb, Chase and Rasmussen 2001 photo/drawing fide;
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