Platycoryne ambigua (Kraenzl.) Summerh. 1934 Drawing and collection sheet by © The Kew Royal Botanical Garden Website

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Common Name or Meaning The Ambiguous Platycoryne

Flower Size

Found in Tanzania in wet grasslands in depressions or near streams at elevations of 1100 to 1650 meters as a small to medium sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with ellipsoid to almost globose, sparsely tomentose tubers giving rise to an erect, slender, flexuous stem with scattered along the stem, 4 to7, the lowermost sheath-like, the rest erect to suberect, linear, acute, grading smaller above leaves that blooms in the late summer and early fall on a terminal, erect, to 4" [to 10 cm] long, rather loosely 1 to 8 flowered inflorescence

Synonyms *Habenaria ambigua Kraenzl. 1900

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Tropical East Africa Orchidaceaea Part 1 SUmmerhayes 1968

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