Triceratorhynchus Summerh.

Genus

Angiosperms > Asparagales > Orchidaceae

Characteristics

Epiphytic herbs with a short many-leaved stems. Leaves distichous, linear, unequally bilobed at apex. Inflorescence spreading, elongate, laxly few–many-flowered. Flowers small, pedicellate. Sepals and petals free, subsimilar. Lip obscurely 3-lobed, concave at base, ovate, acute, spurred, ecallose; spur filiform, elongate, longer than or equalling lip in length. Column short, fleshy; anther hemisphaerical, erose on apical margin; pollinia 2, ovoid; stipites 2, very short, slender; viscidia 2, oblong-elliptic, twice as long as each stipes; rostellum complex, porrect, 3-pronged in front and behind, the central prong in front shorter than the outer ones.
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

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Distribution

Triceratorhynchus world distribution map, present in Burkina Faso, Kenya, Rwanda, and Uganda

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:30833-1
WFO ID wfo-4000038913
COL ID 8W4BG
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Synonyms

Distylodon Triceratorhynchus

Lower taxons

Triceratorhynchus viridiflorus Triceratorhynchus comptus Triceratorhynchus sonkeanus