Tridactyle phaeocephala Summerh. 1948

TYPE Collection Sheet by E M Bruce and Kew's Plants of the World Website

Common Name The Brown Anther Cap Tridactyle

Flower Size

Found in Tanzania in dry evergreen forest on Xymalos monospora at elevations around 2250 to 2400 meters as a small sized, cold growing epiphyte with elongate, apically foliaceous stems carrying somewhat compressed, lightly longitudiannly many ribbed, suberect, petent tyo recurved, linear to linear-ligulate, conduplicate basally, unequally bilobed apically, acute to rounded, obtusely denticulate, shiny green leaves that blooms in the winter on a patent to erect, short, to .4 to 1.4" [1 to 3.5 cm] long, 3 to 7 flowered inflorescence with ovate acute to obtuse, less than half as long as the ovary floral bracts and carrying green flowers with a brown anther, .

"Another species close to T. stipulata , from which it differs in the narrower leaves, the flower color, the tepals mostly obtuse, the apex of the lateral lip lobes with differnt fimbriation. The long and irregularly divided side-lobes of the lip are a characteristic feature." Summerhayes 1948

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Kew Bull. 3: 292 Summerhayes 1948

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