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Orchidaceae - Epidendroideae - Vandeae - Bolusiella Schltr.

Description:

  • Epiphytic monopodial herbs, with short leafy stems, without pseudobulbs
  • Leaves distichous, equitant, succulent, arranged in vertical plane forming fan
  • Inflorescences lateral, short racemes; bracts comparatively large; flowers small, white
  • Sepals lanceolate, acute to acuminate, free, spreading
  • Petals lanceolate, free
  • Lip entire or 3-lobed, with short cylindrical spur
  • Gynostemium short, without column-foot; anther operculate; pollinia 2, each attached by linear stipe to large ovate viscidium
  • Capsule ovoid
  • x = 25 (1 report)

Nomenclature:

  • Bolusiella Schltr.
    • Schlechter: 105 (1918)
    • Schelpe: 52 (1966)
    • Harrison: 45 (1972)
    • Stewart et al.: 262 (1982)
    • Linder & Kurzweil: 431 (1999)
  • Angraecum in part
    • Rolfe: 73 (1912)
    • Phillips: 243 (1951)

Distribution & Notes:

  • Global: Species 5, tropical and southern Africa
  • Southern Africa: Species 1: Bolusiella maudiae (Bolus) Schltr., in N KwaZulu-Natal

References:

  • HARRISON, E.R. 1972. Epiphytic orchids of southern Africa. Natal Branch of the Wildlife Society of Southern Africa
  • 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
  • SCHLECHTER, R. 1918. Versuch einer natürlichen Anordnung der afrikanischen Angraekoiden Orchidaceen. Beihefte zum Botanischen Centralblatt 36
  • STEWART, J., LINDER, H.P., SCHELPE, E.A. & HALL, A.V. 1982. Wild orchids of southern Africa. Macmillan, Johannesburg