Tridactyle translucens Summerh. 1948 Drawing by © Williamson

LATE EARLIER

Common Name The Transluscent Tridactyle

Flower Size

Found in Zambia in Cryptosepalum and Bracystegia Woodlands at elevations around 1400 meters as a small sized, cool growing terrestrial with several erect stems carrying several, distichous, ligulate to lanceolate-ligulate, unequally and obtusely bilobed apically, v shaped in crossection, slightly recurved, very fleshy leaves that blooms in the late summer and earlier fall on an axillary, opposite the leaves, .24 to .4" [.6 to 1 cm] long, 2 to 6 flowered inflorescence with shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying transluscent greenish white to pale orange flowers.

"This is evidently another member of the group allied to T lagosensis but differing from the other species in the smaller, fleshier, more closely placed leaves and greater number of flowers in the slightly longer inflorescence. The specific epithet is given in allusion to the texture of the flowers which are said by the collector to be like "frosted glass". Summerhayes 1048

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Kew Bull. 3: 290 Summerhayes 1948 The Orchids of South Central Africa Williamson 1977 drawing fide; Flora Zambesiaca Vol 11 Orchidaceae Part 2 Pope 1998; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans, Campbell 2006

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