Orestias foliosa Summerh. in G.M.D.Troupin 1956Scan by Jstor and the JSTOR Plant Science Website

Common Name The Leafy Orestias

Flower Size

Found in Gabon, Zaire, Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe at elevations around 700 meters as a miniature sized, hot to warm growing terrestrial orchid with an erect stem carrying up to 6, scatterd along the stem, narrowly ovate to ovate, acute to acuminate, gradually narrowing below into the petiolate base leaves that blooms in the spring and summer on an erect, to 3" [to 7.5 cm] long, laxly to 8 flowered inflorescence

This is the Isotype of Orestias foliosa and was collected in 5/1954

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of South Central Africa Williamson 1977 drawing fide;

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