Source:
SSA
Description:
Terrestrial herbs, with ovoid or globose root tubers. Leaves usually grass-like, mainly radical, sometimes forming basal rosette, upper ones reduced to short sheathing bracts. Inflorescence a +/- dense raceme, drooping; flowers not resupinate, yellow, pink or white. Sepals free, connivent or spreading, subequal. Petals simple, oblique, much smaller than sepals. Lip united with base of gynostemium, spurred, 3-lobed. Gynostemium short; anther thecae erect or slightly reflexed, parallel and adjacent, anther canals almost 0; pollinia 2, sectile, caudicles attached to separate viscidia; stigma concave at base of gynostemium; rostellum 3-lobed, central lobe small. Capsule oblong or ovoid.
Distribution:
Species 11, eastern and sthn Afr.; 8 in eastern half of sthn Afr., mainly in mountainous country.
Classification:
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