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
Nomenclature:
Schizochilus
Sond.
Sonder: 78 (1847)
Rolfe: 89 (1912)
Phillips: 234 (1951)
Schelpe: 62 (1966)
Linder: 379 (1980)
Stewart et al.: 75 (1982)
Linder & Kurzweil: 87 (1999)
Distribution & Notes:
Global
: Species 11, eastern and southern Africa
Southern Africa
: Species 8 in eastern half, mainly in mountainous country
References:
LINDER, H.P. 1980. An annotated revision of the genus
Schizochilus
Sond. (
Orchidaceae
).
Journal of South African Botany
46
LINDER, H.P. & KURZWEIL, H. 1999.
Orchids of southern Africa
. A.A. Balkema, Rotterdam
PHILLIPS, E.P. 1951. The genera of South African flowering plants.
Memoirs of the Botanical Survey of South Africa
No. 25
ROLFE, R.A. 1912. Order CXXXI.
Orchideae
.
Flora capensis
5,3
SCHELPE, E.A. 1966.
An introduction to the South African Orchids
. Purnell & Sons, Cape Town, Johannesburg
STEWART, J., LINDER, H.P., SCHELPE, E.A. & HALL, A.V. 1982.
Wild orchids of southern Africa
. Macmillan, Johannesburg
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