Platylepis glandulosa (Lindl.) Rchb. f. 1877

Photo courtesy of Dr Schelpe

Common Name The Glandular Haired Platylepis [refers to the inflorescence]

Flower Size 3/8" [7mm]

Found in most all tropical Africa in shady, marshy areas on river banks and on rocks in forests at elevations of 800 to 1500 meters as a small sized, warm growing terestrial with pencil-thick, soft stems that root into leaf liter giving rise to glandular inflorescence that arise in February and March or summer ensitu and have the flowers in a dense corymb held towards the apex.

Synonyms Diplogastra angolensis Welw. ex Rchb.f. 1865; *Notiophrys glandulosa Lindl. 1862; Platylepis angolensis (Welw. ex Rchb.f.) T.Durand & Schinz 1894; Platylepis australis Rolfe 1906; Platylepis engleriana Kraenzl. ex Engl. 1908; Platylepis nyassana Schltr. 1915; Platylepis talbotii Rendle 1913

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Wild Orchids of Southern Africa Stewart, Linder, Schelpe & Hall 1982 photo fide; Flora of Tropical East Africa Orchidaceae Part 2 Cribb 1984; Flora Zambesiaca Vol 11 Part 1 Pope 1995; Field Guide to the Ethiopian Orchids Demissew, Cribb & Rasmussen 2004

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