Pterygodium magnum Rchb.f. 1867 SECTION Magnum

Flower Closeup Photos by © Lourens Grobler

Plant and Flowers in situ Photo by © Cameron McMaster

Common Name The Large Pterygodium

Flower Size .8" [2 cm]

Found in Cape Province, Natal Orange Free State and Transvaal South Africa in marshy grasslands at elevations of 900 to 2200 meters as a giant sized, cold growing terrestrial orchid with numerous, cauline, oblong-lanceolate leaves grading into obvious floral bracts that blooms in the summer on an erect, terminal, densely many [45 to 100] flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Corycium magnum (Rchb.f.) Rolfe 1913

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 5 257- 320 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1974 as Corycium magnum; Wild Orchids of Southern Africa Stewart, Linder, Schelpe & Hall 1982 as Corycium magnum photo fide; Orchids of Southern Africa Linder & Kurzweil 1999 photo fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 40 pg 2492 - 2564 Brieger 2000; Field Guide to the Orchids of Northern South Africa and Swaziland McMurty, Grobler, Grobler & Burns 2008 photo

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