Tridactyle latifolia Summerh. 1948

Drawing by © John S Ball and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

TYPE Collection sheet and Drawings

Collection Sheet and TYPE drawings by Summerhayes and Kew's Plants of the World Website

LATE

Common Name The Broad Leaved Tridactyle

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in the Gulf of Guinea Islands and Gabon on trees along rivers as a small to medium sized, ususlly pendent, hot to warm growing epiphyte with robust, semi-pendent stems carrying 5 to 6, narrowly elliptic-oblong, curved, leathery, unequally bilobed apically leaves that blooms in the fall on several, lax, 2 to 4.6" [5 to 11.5 cm] long, 8 to 18 flowered inflorescence with small, ovate to somewhat orbicular, obtuse, half as long as the ovary floral bracts and carrying reddish yellow flowers

"This species has much the same type of leaf (relatively thin and broad) as in T.fimbriatipetala (De Wildem.) Schltr., but appreciably broader and therefore the broadest found in the genus. In other general features T. latifolia is clearly allied to that species but lacks the remarkable fim- briate-lacerate margins to the whole of the lip and petals. The petals and the lateral lobes of the lip have, however, a few scattered and irregular fimbriae in the distal half." Summerhayes 1948

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Kew Bull. 3: 298 Summerhayes 1948 Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans and Campbell 2006

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