Source:
SSA
Synonym(s):
Angraecum in part; Rolfe: 68 (1912); Phillips: 243 (1951).
Description:
Epiphytic monopodial herbs, with short or elongate leafy stems, without pseudobulbs. Leaves distichous, terete or flat, linear to ligulate, tip often unequally bilobed. Inflorescences lateral, few- to many-flowered racemes; flowers cream to yellow or green; bracts small. Sepals and petals subsimilar, free, spreading or recurved. Lip usually tri-lobed, with lateral lobes often fimbriate or serrate, spurred at base. Gynostemium short and fleshy, lacking column-foot; anther horizontal or somewhat reclining, operculate; pollinia 2, attached by entire or Y-shaped stipe to circular or elliptic viscidium; rostellum elongate, tapering towards apex. Capsule mostly ellipsoid. x= 23 (aneuploids, polyploidy).
Distribution:
Species +/- 42, sub-Saharan Africa; 4 south to Eastern Cape.
Classification:
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