Platycoryne crocea Rolfe 1898 Photo by © Bob Campbell
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Common Name The Saffron-Yellow Platycoryne
Flower Size 1/2" [1.25 cm]
Found in Cameroon, Central African Republic, Burundi, Congo, Zaire, Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania , Zambia, Malawi, Angola and Zimbabwe in grassy areas in shallow soil over rocks and lava projections at elevations of 1200 to 2350 meters as a miniature to medium sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with a stem carrying a tuft of leaves at the base and several more along the length shaped as linear to linear-lanceolate lower and towards the apex, more or less adpressed to the stem, lanceolate, acute shorter than the basal ones that blooms in the late spring through summer on an erect, .8 to 1.4" [2 to 3.5 cm] long, densely 2 to 9 flowered inflorescence with lanceolate floral bracts that are shorter than the pedicel.
Synonyms Habenaria crocea Schweinf. ex Rchb.f. 1878; Habenaria elegantula Kraenzl.1914; Habenaria montis-elgon Schltr. 1922; Habenaria ochrantha Schltr. 1915; Platycoryne crocea subsp. elegantula (Kraenzl.) Summerh. 1964; Platycoryne crocea subsp. montis-elgon (Schltr.) Summerh.1964; Platycoryne crocea subsp. ochrantha (Schltr.) Summerh. 1964; Platycoryne elegantula (Kraenzl.) Summerh. in J.Hutchinson & J.M.Dalziel 1936; Platycoryne heterophylla Summerh. 1958; Platycoryne montis-elgon (Schltr.) Summerh. 1932; Platycoryne ochrantha (Schltr.) Summerh. 1947 publ. 1948;
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Otia Botanica Hamburgensia Rchb.f 1878 as Habenaria crocea; Flora of Tropical East Africa Summerhayes 1968 drawing fide; Orchids of East Africa Piers 1968; Orchids of East Africa Piers 1968 as P crocea subsp montis-elgon; Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 5 257- 320 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1974; Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 5 257- 320 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1974 as P crocea subsp montis-elgon; The Orchids of South Central Africa Williamson 1977 as P crocea subsp elegantula drawing ok; The Orchids of South Central Africa Williamson 1977 as P crocea subsp ochrantha; The Orchids of South Central Africa Williamson 1977 as P heterophylla; Flore D'Afrique Centrale [Zaire- Rwands - Burundi] Orhidaceae Premeir parte Geerink 1984 drawing fide; Flora Zambesiaca Vol 11 Orchidaceae Part 1 Pope 1995; Orchids of Kenya Stewart & Campbell 1996 photo fide; Field Guide to the Ethiopian Orchids Demissew, Cribb and Rasmussen 2004 photos fide; Orchidaceae of West Central Africa Vol 1 Szlatchecko etal 2010 as Platycoryne heterophylla drawing fide; Orchidaceae of West Central Africa Vol 1 Szlatchecko etal 2010 drawing fide;
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