Brownleea macroceras Sond.

Species

Angiosperms > Asparagales > Orchidaceae > Brownleea

Characteristics

Plants (50-) 100-300 (-500) mm tall; basal sheath obtuse and apiculate, ribbed and with dark brown muricate patches, (20-) 40-80 mm long; leaves 1 (-3), blade usually narrowly lanceolate, acute, spreading, shallowly conduplicate, 60-80 (-120) x 4-10 (-30) mm. Inflorescences 1 (-6)-flowered. Flowers facing out horizontally, up to 30 mm in diameter, sepals and petals pale mauve to almost white. Median sepal galea 10-13 x c. 2-3 mm x 3-6 mm deep; spur slender, at length somewhat decurved, apically subclavate, obtuse, (15-) 25-40 mm long; lateral sepals (10-) 13-18 x 4-6 mm. Petals oblanceolate to narrowly obovate, suboblique, acute, facing forwards. Lip c. 2 mm long. Anther c. 3 mm long, apex upcurved; stigma c. 2.5 mm in diameter; rostellum 3-5 mm tall.
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Terrestrial herb, slender geophyte, 0.04-0.08 m high; with ovoid root tubers. Leaves 1, cauline, narrowly lanceolate, acute up to 70 x 8 mm. Inflorescence lax. Flowers 1-6, secund, white to mauve, central parts darker. Sepals unequal; median sepal 10-13 mm long; lateral sepals oblique, narrowly elliptical 13-18 mm long; spur slender 25-40 mm long, decurved. Petals oblanceolate to narrowly obovate, 10-14 mm long. Lip very small. Flowering time Jan.-Mar.
Herb, up to 0.5 m high. Leaves 1(-3), narrowly lanceolate, < 10 mm wide. Flowers: 1-3(-5) in lax spike, petals not apically expanded, margins not crenulate, not spreading; slender spur 25-40 mm long, somewhat decurved; petals mauve to almost white; Feb.-Apr.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.04 - 0.08
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Soil texture 7-8
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Distribution

Brownleea macroceras world distribution map, present in Lesotho and South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:618210-1
WFO ID wfo-0000436361
COL ID 694LJ
BDTFX ID -
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Synonyms

Brownleea macroceras Brownleea monophylla