Tridactyle nigrescens Summerh. 1948

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

Common Name The Blackish Tridactyle

Flower Size

Found in Zaïre, Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania in sclerophyllous forests at elevations of 1100 to 2700 meters as a medium sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with a descending, few branched, slender, partly apically leafy stem carrying rugose, slightly longitudinally sulcate, bent to recurved, linear, more or less conduplicate to v-shaped, apically unequally bilobed with rounded to slightly obtuse lobules, pale green, blackening when dried leaves that blooms in the spring and summer on a short, .28" [7 mm] long, 2 to 3 flowered inflorescence with laxly ochreate, obtuse to rounded, shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying yellowish to pale green, fragrant flowers

"This interesting little species, easily recognized in dried specimens by the blackening of the leaves, is clearly related to T lagosensis in the general growth, the nature of the leaves and the short inflorescence. It differs especially in the much longer spur and in the side lobes of the lip being divided at the apex to gforma small number of short finger-like lobes." Summerhayes 1948

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Kew Bull. 3: 288 Summerhayes 1948

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