e-Key v3 - Evotella
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Orchidaceae - Orchidoideae - Diseae - Evotella Kurzweil & H.P.Linder

Description :

  • Terrestrial herbs with root tubers
  • Leaves cauline, linear
  • Inflorescence a ± dense raceme; flowers resupinate, cup-shaped with red petals and white lip; bracts ovate-acute
  • Sepals : median one adnate to petals, lanceolate; laterals spreading, free
  • Petals with basal anterior lobe
  • Lip basally fused with gynostemium, triangular-hastate, subacute, with flat, wide and pendent claw, with tall, erect, entire but bifid appendage at base
  • Gynostemium : anther with semipendent thecae, anther canals not prominent; pollinia 2, sectile; stigmas and viscidia on terminal rostellum portions
  • Capsule cylindrical

Nomenclature:

  • Evotella Kurzweil & H.P.Linder
    • Kurzweil et al.: 215 (1991)
    • Linder & Kurzweil: 325 (1999)

Distribution & Notes:

  • Southern Africa : Species 1: Evotella rubiginosa (Sond. ex Bolus) Kurzweil & H.P.Linder, Western Cape; rare

References:

  • KURZWEIL, H., LINDER, H.P., & CHESSELET, P. 1991. The phylogeny and evolution of the Pterygodium - Corycium complex ( Coryciinae , Orchidaceae ). Plant Systematics and Evolution 175
  • LINDER, H.P. & KURZWEIL, H. 1999. Orchids of southern Africa . A.A. Balkema, Rotterdam