Tridactyle eggelingii Summerh. 1948

Collection Sheet by W J Eggling and Kew's Plants of the World Website

Common Name Eggling's Tridactyle [German Botanist 1900's]

Flower Size

Found in Zaïre, Uganda, Burundi and Rwanda in montane forests at elevations of 2000 meters as a small to just medium sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with an elongate, more or less few branched, slender, leafy stem carrying transversely rugose, striated longitudinally striate, narrowly lanceolate-ligulate to linear-ligulate, unequally bilobed with longer rounded lobules, brownish when dry but barely blackish leaves that blooms in the spring on a very short, to .32" [8 mm] long, 2 to 3 flowered inflorescence with obtuse to rounded, much shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying pearly green to white flowers

"Similar to T lagosensis and T nigrescens but differs in the lip lateral lobes, longer in the middle, fringed at the apex, and its spur twice as long as the lip, wider leaves that do not blacken when dried and larger flowers." Summerhayes 1948

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Kew Bull. 3: 289 Summerhayes 1948

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