Neobolusia ciliata Summerh. 1956
Photos by © B Jongeling and The Flora of Zimbabwe Website
TYPE Collection Sheet and Drawing
TYPE Collection Sheet and Drawing by © Summerhayes and Kew's Plants of the World Website
LATE
EARLY
Common Name The Cilate Neobolusia [refers to the lip margin]
Flower Size
Found in Mozambique and Zimbabwe in rocky montane grasslands at elevations around 1500 to 2000 meters as a small sized, cool growing terrestrial with a villous, fusiform tuber giving rise to an erect stem carrying usually three, largest near the base, lanceolate, apiculate leaves that blooms in the late spring and early summer on an erect, 6" [15 cm] long, successively 1 to 2, laxly 3 to 10 flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acuminate, basally sheathed, equal to much longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying suberect, green flowers with a purple to brown lip.
"This delightful little species is easily recognised from the other species of the genus on account of the lobed hastate labellum which is densely ciliate all round the margin. As regards the general floral structure it is a typical member of the genus and in habit closely resembles both N. tysoni and N. stolzii ." Summerhayes 1956
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Kew Bull. 11: 217 Summerhayes 1956
Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 4 193 to 256 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1971;
Flora Zambesiaca Vol 11 Orchidaceae Part 1 Pope 1995 drawing fide
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