Platycoryne macroceras Summerhayes 1958 Drawing and collection sheet by © The Kew Royal Botanical Garden Website

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Common Name or Meaning The Large Spurred Platycoryne

Flower Size

Found in Zaire and Zambia in dry grasslands and open dambo at elevations of 1500 to 1650 meters as a small to medium sized, cool growing terrestrial with ovoid, villous tubers giving rise to a stem carrying 3 to 6, al along the stem, linear to linear-lanceolate leaves that blooms in the later spring and summer on a terminal, erect, 1 rarely 2 flowered inflorescence.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of South Central Africa Williamson 1977 drawing fide; Flore D'Afrique Centrale [Zaire- Rwands - Burundi] Orhidaceae Premeir parte Geerink 1984; Flora Zambesiaca Vol 11 Orchidaceaea Part 1 Pope 1995; Orchidaceae of West Central Africa Vol 1 Szlatchecko etal 2010 drawing fide

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