Brachycorythis pleistophylla Rchb.f. 1881
Flower CloseupPlant in Situ in Zimbabwe Photo by Bart Wursten ©, and his Flora Of Zimbabwe WebSite
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Common Name The Many Leafed Brachycorythis
Flower Size .6" [1.6 cm]
Found in Nigeria, Burundi, Cameroon, Congo, Equatrial Guinea, Gabon, Rwanda, Zaire, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Angola, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Transvaal South Africa and Madagascar at the edges of deciduous woodlands or grasslands at elevations of 900 to 2700 meters as a small to giant sized, warm to cold growing terrestrial orchid with a thick, fleshy tuber giving rise to an erect stem carrying numerous, lanceolate, acuminate, decreasing in size ascending the stem and becoming bract-like leaves that blooms in the late spring and early summer on a subdensely many flowered, to 14" [35 cm] long, racemose inflorescence
Synonyms Brachycorythis briantiana Kraenzl. ex De Wild. & T.Durand 1899; Brachycorythis leopoldii Kraenzl. 1898; Brachycorythis macclouniei Braid1925; Brachycorythis perrieri Schltr. 1916; Brachycorythis pleistophylla subsp. leopoldii (Kraenzl.) Summerh. 1955; Brachycorythis pleistophylla var. leopoldii (Kraenzl.) Geerinck 1982; Brachycorythis pulchra Schltr. 1915
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Otia Botanica Hamburgensia Rchb.f 1881; Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1939/81; Encylopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Flora of tropical East Africa Part 1 Summerhayes 1968; The Orchids of South Central Africa Williamson 1977 drawing/photo fide; Wild Orchids of Southern Africa Stewart, Linder, Schelpe & Hall 1982 photo fide; Flora Zambesiaca Vol 11 Part 1 Pope 1995; Orchids of Kenya Stewart, Campbell 1996 photo fide; Field Guide to the Orchids of Northern South Africa and Swaziland McMurty, Grobler, Grobler & Burns 2008 photo fide; Field Guide to the Orchids of Madagascar Cribb & Herman 2009 photo fide; Terrestrial African Orchids, A select Review John S. Ball 2009 drawing fide
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