Nervilia kotschyi (Rchb.f.) Schltr. 1911 SECTION Nervilia
Photo by © Petterson
Photo © by Francisco Perez-Vera
Photo © by Bart Wursten and his Flora of Zimbabwe Website
EARLY
Common Name Kotschy's Nervilia [Austrian Botanist in Eastern Sudan 1800's]
Flower Size 1.4" [3.5 cm]
Found in Benin, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal, Central African Republic, Zaire, Chad, Ethiopia, Sudan, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Angola, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Transvaal and Madagascar in grasslands and rocky ridges in poor sandy to limey soils in deep shade at elevations of 1200 to 2300 meters as a small sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with a solitary, horizontal to erect, broadly cordate to rarely broadly ovate, dark green above, sometimes purple beneath veins carrying a raised, more or less raggedy lacerate keel, shortly petiolate, plicate leaf that arises after the seed-capsules have set and withered and before they bloom in the spring, summer and early fall on an erect, to 11.2" [28 cm] long, 2 to 7 flowered inflorescence with linear, setose floral bracts.
Synonyms Nervilia abyssinica (Chiov.) Schltr.1920; Nervilia dalbergiae Jum. & H.Perrier 1912; Nervilia diantha Schltr. 1915; Nervilia kotschyi var. purpurata (Rchb.f. & Sond.) Börge Pett. 1990; Nervilia plicata var. purpurea (Hayata) S.S.Ying 1990; Nervilia purpurata (Rchb.f. & Sond.) Schltr. 1903; Nervilia sakoae Jum. & H.Perrier 1912; Pogonia abyssinica Chiov. 1911; *Pogonia kotschyi Rchb.f. 1864; Pogonia purpurata Rchb.f. & Sond 1865
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1939/81 as N sakoae drawing ok; Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1939/81 as N dalbergiae drawing ok; The Orchids of South Central Africa Williamson 1977 as N purpurata drawing ok; The Orchids of South Central Africa Williamson 1977 drawing/photo ok; Wild Orchids of Southern Africa Stewart, Linder, Schelpe & Hall 1982 as N purpurata photo fide; Flora of Tropical East Africa Orchidaceae Part 2 Cribb 1984 drawing leaf only; Flore D'Afrique Centrale [Zaire- Rwands - Burundi] Orhidaceae Premeir parte Geerink 1984 drawing fide; Flora of Tropical East Africa Orchidaceae Part 2 Cribb 1984 as N purpurata drawing leaf only; Orchids of the Central African Republic a Provisional Checklist Cribb & Fay 1986; Orchid Monographs 5 Petterson 1991 drawing/photo fide; Flora Zambesiaca Vol 11 Orchidaceae Part 1 Pope 1995 darawing/photo fide; Flora Zambesiaca Vol 11 Orchidaceae Part 1 Pope 1995 as N kotschyi var purpurata; Orchids of Kenya Stewart & Campbell 1996 photo fide; Orchids of Southern Africa Linder & Kurzweil 1999 drawing leaf only; Les Orchidees de Cote d'Ivorie Perez-Vera 2003 photo/drawing fide; Field Guide to the Ethiopian Orchids Demissew, Cribb & Rasmussen 2004; Orchids of Madagascar Hermans, Du Puy, Cribb & Bosser 2007; Field Guide to the Orchids of Northern South Africa and Swaziland McMurty, Grobler, Grobler & Burns 2008 photos; Field Guide to the Orchids of Madagascar Cribb & Hermans 2009 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 81 #3 2017 photo fide; A la Recherche des Orchidees de Madagascar Hervouet 2018 photo fide;
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