Platycoryne pervillei Rchb.f.1855
Photo by Bart Wursten ©, and his Flora Of Zimbabwe Web Site
EARLY 
Common Name Perville's Platycoryne [French Original Collector of Type Species Madagascar 1800's]
Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]
Found in Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Madagascar in marshes, humid woods and clearings at elevations of 580 to to 1400 meters as a medium sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with 2, oblong-cylindrical, tubers giving rise to 6 to 7, cauline, distant, attenuate-acute, narrow leaves that blooms in the summer and early fall on a bright orange, .4 to 2.2" [1 to 5.5 cm] long, very loosely 4 to 7 flowered inflorescence.
"The species may be distinguished from P buchananiana by the fewer flowers in the inflorescence, the larger flowers with more acute tepals and especially by the rostellum. In the present species the rostellum is placed well in front of the column while the lateral lobes are much widened towards the base and taper gradually towards the broad apex. In P buchananiana the rostellum is much nearer the anther, while the lateral lobes are relatively slender and are approximately the same width all the way along." Summerhayes 1958
Synonyms Habenaria buchwaldiana Kraenzl. 1898; Habenaria depauperata Kraenzl. 1882; Habenaria flammea Kraenzl. 1900; Habenaria pervillei Kraenzl. 1893; Habenaria tenuicaulis Rendle 1895; Platycoryne tenuicaulis (Rendle) Rolfe 1898
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Bonplandia Rchb.f 1855; Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1939/81 drawing fide;
Kew Bull. 13: 62 Summerhayes 1958
Flora of Tropical East Africa Part 1 Summerhayes 1968;
Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 5 257- 320 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1974;
Flora Zambesiaca Vol 11 Orchidaceae Part 1 Pope 1995;
Orchids of Kenya Stewart & Campbell 1996 photo fide;
Field Guide to the Orchids of Madagascar Cribb & Herman 2009 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #6 2015 photo fide;
Les Orchidees de Madagascar Bosser & Lecoufle 2015 photo fide;
Orchid Digest Vol 81 #3 2017 photo fide;
A la Recherche des Orchidees de Madagascar Hervouet 2018 photo fide;
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