Source:
SSA
Description:
Small terrestrial herbs, with root tubers. Leaf solitary, basal, elliptic. Inflorescence subcapitate with few flowers, slightly drooping; flowers white with pale pink petals and lip; bracts lanceolate, somewhat longer than ovary. Sepals subequal, narrowly elliptic. Petals oblong-ovate, obtuse, less than half as long as sepals. Lip subpandurate, unspurred, basal portion narrow and saccate, apical portion with two minute side lobes. Gynostemium: anther thecae slightly reflexed, parallel and adjacent, anther canals absent; pollinia 2, sectile, with separate viscidia; stigma concave, with short process.
Distribution:
Species 1: Dracomonticola virginea (Bolus) H.P. Linder & Kurzweil, in Drakensberg range (KwaZulu-Natal, Lesotho), rock crevices and grassy ledges.
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