Brownleea maculata P.J.Cribb 1977

Plant and Flowers in situ Mozambique Photos by © Bart Wursten and The Mozambique Flora Website

Common Name or Meaning The Spotted Brownleea

Flower Size .32" [.8 cm]

Found in Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe in shade of forests often on old rotting tree trunks, rocks and the base of live trees at elevations above 1500 meters as a small to just medium sized, cool growing terrestrial with densely villous tubers giving rise to an erect stem carrying, an often absent, basal fibrous, acute sheath and 2 to 3, somewhat ascending, distant, lanceolate to narrowly ovate, acute to acuminate, emergent veined, shortly sheathing base leaves that blooms in the fall on a terminal, erect, to 4" [to 10 cm] long, lax, several to many flowered inflorescence with lanceolate to narrowly lanceolate, acuminate floral bracts.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Malawi Orchids Vol 1 La Croix 1983; Flora Zambesiaca Vol 11 Orchidaceae Part 1 Pope 1995 drawing/photo fide;

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