Hetaeria occidentalis Summerh. 1934
Drawing by © Francisco Perez-Vera
Drawing by © Summerhayes and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name The Western Hetaeria
Flower Size .25" [.525 mm]
Found in Guinea Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Gabon, Congo and Zaire in riverine forests as a small to medium sized, hot to warm growing terrestrial with an erect stem carrying 3 to 8, all along the stem, ovate, acute to acuminate, petiolate, basally clasping leaves that blooms in the winter on an erect, 16" [40 cm] long, several to many flowered inflorescence carrying non-resupinate flowers
Synonyms Zeuxine occidentalis (Summerh.) Geerinck 1980
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flore D'Afrique Centrale [Zaire- Rwands - Burundi] Orhidaceae Premeir parte Geerink 1984 as Zeuxine occidentalis drawing fide; Les Orchidees de Cote d'Ivorie Perez-Vera 2003 drawing fide;
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