Platycoryne paludosa (Lindl.) Rolfe 1898
Photos by © Francisco Perez-Vera
Drawing and collection sheet by © The Kew Royal Botanical Garden Website
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Common Name or Meaning The Pale Platycoryne
Flower Size
Found in Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Burkino Faso, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Benin, Nigeria, Chad, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Gabon and Congo in marshes or damp grassy places in meadows as a small sized terrestrial with a single ellipsoid tuber giving rise to an erect, delicate, glabrous stem carrying 5 to 6, spaced out along the stem, narrowly lanceolate, acute, suberect, decreasing in size towards the apex, the uppermost bract-like leaves that blooms in the later spring through fall on an eret, terminal, .8 to 1.4" [2 to 3.5 cm] long, 1 to 3 flowered inflorescence with broadly ovate-lanceolate, acuminate floral bracts and carrying yellow-orange to orange flowers .
Synonyms Habenaria aurea Kraenzl. 1893; *Habenaria paludosa Lindl. 1862; Habenaria wilfordii Ridl. 1886; Platycoryne aurea (Kraenzl.) Rolfe 1898; Platycoryne wilfordii (Ridl.) Rolfe 1898
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; AOS Bulletin Vol 32 # 10 1963; Les Orchidees de Cote d'Ivorie Perez-Vera 2003 photo/drawing fide; Orchidaceae of West Central Africa Vol 1 Szlatchecko etal 2010 drawing fide
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