Platycoryne isoetifolia P.J.Cribb 1977 Drawing by © Williamson

Common Name The Equal Leaved Platycoryne

Flower Size

Found in Zaire and Zambia in wet or dry dambos at elevations around 1350 meters as a small sized, cool growing terrestrial with ovoid, tomentose, subterranean tubers giving rise to 6 to 10, in a basal tuft, narrowly lanceolate, 1 to 2, cauline above leaves that blooms in the summer on an erect, terminal, 4" [10 cm] long, laxly 1 to 7 flowered inflorescence with shorter than the ovary floral rbacts and carrying green to yellow green flowers.

Synonyms Platycoryne robynsiana Geerinck 1982

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of South Central Africa Williamson 1977 as Habenaria sp #8 pg 41 drawing fide; Flore D'Afrique Centrale [Zaire- Rwands - Burundi] Orhidaceae Premeir parte Geerink 1984 as P robynsiana; Flora Zambesiaca Vol 11 Orchidaceae Part 2 Pope 1998

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