Tridactyle crassifolia Summerh. 1948
Photos by © Vincent Droissart and The Orchidaceae of Central Africa Website
Common Name The Thick Leaved Tridactyle
Flower Size
Found in Ghana, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Gabon and Zaire in evergreen forests as a medium sized, hot growing epiphyte with long branching, often pendent stems carrying many, linear-lanceolate, thick, fleshy, v-shaped in cross-section, greyish green leaves that blooms in the later summer on a short, 1 to 3 flowered inflorescence carrying very small yellow flowers.
"This species is clearly allied to T anthomaniaca and T. muriculata , with the floral structure being very similar in all three. From both species it differs in its very thick, fleshy leaves which are more or less triangular in section, the upper surface being slightly hollowed-out or V-shaped with a deep narrow groove running along the middle. The lower surface is convex with an obscurerounded keel, but the two margins are quite acute. on drying the leaf margins tend to curl inwards whereas in T. anthomaiaca they becomed recurved as the leaves dry." Summerhaues 1948
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Kew Bull. 3: 285 Summerhayes 1948 Les Orchidees de Cote d'Ivorie Perez-Vera 2003 drawing/photo fide; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans, Campbell 2006
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