Platycoryne affinis Summerh. 1958

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Common Name The Similar Platycoryne

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Found in Zimbabwe in grasslands and wet vlei at elevations of 1300 to 1500 meters as a small to medium sized, cool growing terrestrial with glabrous, ellipsoid tubers giving rise to an erect to slightly flexuous, terete, slightly angled, shortly velvety stems carrying 3 to 5, erect to suberect, linear-lanceolate, acute to acuminate leaves that blooms in the late spring on an erect, thin, terete, , rachis .6 to 1.6" [1.5 to 4 cm] long, sublax, 2 to 4 flowered inflorescence with elliptic-lanceolate, acute, much shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying yellow green to yellow flowers.

"Differs from P. protearum in the smaller flowers and shorter and broader lip which is very obscurely lobed in the lower half. The petals always seem to be quite free from the intermediate sepal, a rather un- common occurrence in the genus." Summerhayes 1958

Synonyms Platycoryne affinis var. ecalcarata Fibeck 2000 publ. 2001

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Kew Bull. 13: 61 Summerhayes 1958

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