PLANTAE / PHANEROGAMAE / ANTHOPHYTA / ASPARAGALES / ORCHIDACEAE / ORCHIDOIDEAE / ORCHIDEAE / STENOGLOTTIS / LONGIFOLIA
Lithophytic or terrestrial. Leaves 7-15, lanceolate to linear, usually concolourous green or sparsely spotted, sometimes heavily spotted with brown or maroon, margins flat to weakly undulate, up to 21 x 3 cm. Inflorescence up to 80 cm tall, 20-120 flowers; sheaths spotted or unspotted. Bracts cordate to lanceolate, acute to acuminate, spotted or unspotted, recurved, always shorter than the ovaries, 7.0-17.0 x 2.5-4.5 mm. Flowers white, pink or lilac to mauve, often spotted with a darker shade of pink or purple on all parts; not self-pollinating. Sepals ovate, acute to obtuse, dorsal concave, laterals oblique, 4.5-7.6 x 2.8-5.4 mm, subequal. Petals ovate, oblique, acute, 3.5-6.3 x 2.5-4.6 mm. Labellum unspurred, oblong to obovate, 7.9-15.0 x 3.5-8.6 mm; side lobes usually with 2-5 fimbriae of variable length, sometimes ligulate and entire or shallowly incised; midlobe acute to attenuate, longer than or subequal to side lobes. Column up to 2 mm long; stigmatic arms suberect or parallel to labellum in mature flowers, curving outward; auricles large, clavate, up to 0.8 mm x 0.6 mm at the apex, projecting beyond the anther between the pollinia and stigmas. Ovary 8-22 mm long. From: Phillips, DP; Bytebier, B. 2020. A taxonomic revision of Stenoglottis (Orchideae, Orchidoideae, Orchidaceae). Phytotaxa 456(3): 219-243. [https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.456.3.1]
Terrestrial or lithophytic herb, 0.3-0.6 m high; many tuberous roots. Leaves ± 10, radical, in rosette at base of stem, lorate to narrowly elliptic, up to 60 x 150 mm, light green, glabrous, margins undulate, acute, apices recurved; cauline leaves distant, narrowly lanceolate, acute, up to 15 mm long. Inflorescence a slender, erect, lax, 50-80-flowered raceme, up to 600 mm long; flowers subsecund, lilac with darker spots. Sepals subequal, narrowly ovate, spreading, unlobed, longer than petals; dorsal sepal up to 6 mm long; median sepal concave; lateral sepals oblique. Petals unlobed, porrect, enclosing column. Lip patent, narrowly obtriangular 8-12 x 5 mm long, linear-oblong, unequally 5-lobed, spur absent. Flowering time Mar.-May. From: Bredenkamp, CL; Bredenkamp, GJ; Archer, C; Meyer, NL. 2019. Orchidaceae. In: CL Bredenkamp (ed.), A Flora of the Eastern Cape Province. Strelitzia 41(3): 1890-1958. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria. [CC BY]
Its affinities surely lie with S. woodii which it closely resembles but lacks a spur. Flowers in this species are white to pale pink often with a broken double line of darker pink down the centre of the lip. From: McDonald, GJ. 2008. A review of the genus Stenoglottis Lindley. Orchids South Africa 39(2): 6-12. [All rights reserved] As: Stenoglottis molweniensis G.McDonald ex J.M.H.Shaw
Plants lithophytic or terrestrial, 300-600 mm tall; basal leaves c. 10 in a rosette, lorate to narrowly elliptic, shortly petiolate, concolourous green, acute, 60-150 x 12-25 mm, margins slightly undulate, cauline leaves distant, narrowly lanceolate, acute, to 15 mm long. Inflorescences densely to laxly many-flowered, to 300 x 40 mm; bracts green, thin, narrowly lanceolate, acute, to 10 mm long. Flowers lilac to white, with darker spots on all parts. Sepals subequal, subacute, narrowly ovate, 7-10 mm long; median concave; laterals oblique. Petals similar to the sepals, but somewhat smaller. Lip patent, narrowly obtriangular, 8-12 x 5 mm, 5-lobed, lobes linear to lorate, to 4 mm long; side lobes sometimes united into a single, lacerated lobe. From: Kurzweil, H; Linder, HP. 1999. Orchids of Southern Africa. A.A. Balkema, Rotterdam. [All rights reserved]
Stenoglottis longifolia is most likely to be mistaken for S. fimbriata. Both species exhibit a high degree of morphological variation, particularly in those characters that have historically been used to diagnose them, including overall plant size and degree of fimbriation of the labellum. Whereas specimens of S. longifolia are generally more robust (i.e. having long leaves and tall, many-flowered inflorescences) and usually have relatively large individual flowers with deeply divided side lobes, these traits are inconsistent and vary considerably within and between populations of both taxa. Instead, S. longifolia and S. fimbriata are most reliably distinguished by differences in their floral bracts, column morphology and pollination mode. The bracts of S. longifolia flowers are markedly recurved, whereas those of S. fimbriata are sheathing. The auricles of S. longifolia are clavate with narrow stalks and swollen apices and project beyond the anther, such that they lie between the stigmatic arms and pollinia. In contrast, the auricles of S. fimbriata are usually slender or wider only slightly at the apex and are adnate to the sides of the anther and therefore do not obstruct the stigmatic arms. Consequently, the flowers of S. fimbriata (both varieties) exhibit a high incidence of spontaneous self-pollination, whereas those of S. longifolia do not. From: Phillips, DP; Bytebier, B. 2020. A taxonomic revision of Stenoglottis (Orchideae, Orchidoideae, Orchidaceae). Phytotaxa 456(3): 219-243. [https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.456.3.1]
Leaves are usually unspotted. From: McDonald, GJ. 2008. A review of the genus Stenoglottis Lindley. Orchids South Africa 39(2): 6-12. [All rights reserved] As: Stenoglottis molweniensis G.McDonald ex J.M.H.Shaw
It may only be a tall, robust variety of Stenoglottis fimbriata, and more field studies would be required to resolve the status of this taxon. From: Kurzweil, H; Linder, HP. 1999. Orchids of Southern Africa. A.A. Balkema, Rotterdam. [All rights reserved]
Forests or forest margins in deep or partial shade, most commonly as a lithophyte on boulders, frequently along streams or on south-facing cliff faces; occasionally it occurs as a terrestrial on banks or the forest floor. From: Phillips, DP; Bytebier, B. 2020. A taxonomic revision of Stenoglottis (Orchideae, Orchidoideae, Orchidaceae). Phytotaxa 456(3): 219-243. [https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.456.3.1]
Rocks in forests. Indigenous Forests. From: Bredenkamp, CL; Bredenkamp, GJ; Archer, C; Meyer, NL. 2019. Orchidaceae. In: CL Bredenkamp (ed.), A Flora of the Eastern Cape Province. Strelitzia 41(3): 1890-1958. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria. [CC BY]
Soil banks either on the edge of, or on, the sheer face of Sandstone cliffs. From: McDonald, GJ. 2008. A review of the genus Stenoglottis Lindley. Orchids South Africa 39(2): 6-12. [All rights reserved] As: Stenoglottis molweniensis G.McDonald ex J.M.H.Shaw
KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, and the Lebombo Mountains of Eswatini and southern Mozambique. From: Phillips, DP; Bytebier, B. 2020. A taxonomic revision of Stenoglottis (Orchideae, Orchidoideae, Orchidaceae). Phytotaxa 456(3): 219-243. [https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.456.3.1]
Molweni River valley and the Little Noodsberg From: McDonald, GJ. 2008. A review of the genus Stenoglottis Lindley. Orchids South Africa 39(2): 6-12. [All rights reserved] As: Stenoglottis molweniensis G.McDonald ex J.M.H.Shaw
Rare and local in the Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal. From: Kurzweil, H; Linder, HP. 1999. Orchids of Southern Africa. A.A. Balkema, Rotterdam. [All rights reserved]
February to July
230 to 1200 m
This map contains point-based occurrences at different locations
Occurrence in the Flora of Southern Africa (FSA) countries and South African provinces. Residence status indicates if a taxon is indigenous, endemic, naturalised or invasive in a specific region. This data is based on specimen records and literature
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Names and Sources
Published in: Bot. Mag. 117: t. 7186 (1891)
Type: South Africa. KwaZulu-Natal: Ngoye Forest, date unknown (ex hort. 24 Sep 1889), Wood s.n. (K000415559, holo.)
Stenoglottis molweniensis G.McDonald ex J.M.H.Shaw
Published in: Orchid Rev. Suppl., 115(1278): 24 (2007)
Type: South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal, unknown locality inland from Durban, date unknown (prior to May 1982), Joyce Stewart 2275 (WSY0100905, holo.)
Stenoglottis molweniensis G.McDonald, nom.illegit.
Published in: Orchids S. Africa 39(2): 12 (2008)
Type: South Africa. KwaZulu-Natal: Durban, Krantzkloof Nature Reserve, close to Interpretive Centre, 24 Feb 2002, Styles 657 (NU0015948, holo.)
Classification
KINGDOM Plantae
SUBKINGDOM Phanerogamae
PHYLUM Anthophyta
ORDER Asparagales
FAMILY Orchidaceae
SUBFAMILY Orchidoideae
TRIBE Orchideae
GENUS Stenoglottis
SPECIES longifolia
37 results for Stenoglottis longifolia Hook.f.
Barcode: SAM0020467-0 Collector(s) & number: Wylie, JM, 5650 | 1895-4-16
South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal, Zululand. Ungoya. Altitude 1-2000 ft.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0789692-0 Collector(s) & number: Hutchings, A, 3230 | 1993-5-5
South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal, Ngoye; Ngoye Forest Reserve.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NH0052424-0 Collector(s) & number: Strey, RG, 4947 | 1964-1-6
South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal, Mtunzini District. Ngoya Forest, South-eastern part.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NH0042082-0 Collector(s) & number: Ward, CJ, 2261 | 1954-3-28
South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal, Zululand, Hlabisa District. Nhlwathi.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0111900-0 Collector(s) & number: Wood, JM, 5650 | 1895-4-16
South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal, ZULULAND; UNGOYA.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NH0007116-2 Collector(s) & number: Medley-Wood, J, 5650 | 1895-4-16
South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal, Ngoye, Zululand.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NH0007116-1 Collector(s) & number: Medley-Wood, J, 5650 | 1895-4-16
South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal, Ngoye, Zululand.
General notes: Altitude: 1-2000 ft. Damp ground. Flowers: pink,spotted.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0851207-0 Collector(s) & number: Siebert, SJ, 2954 | 2006-5-4
South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal, Zululand. KwaDlangezwa. Ngoye Forest Reserve. Eastern side.
General notes: Scarp Forest. Humus. Rocky outcrop. No slope.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NH0013627-0 Collector(s) & number: Medley-Wood, J, 5650 | 1896-4-16
South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal, Ngoye, Zululand.
General notes: Altitude: 1-2000 ft. Damp ground. Flowers: pink.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: SAM0020466-0 Collector(s) & number: Wood, JM, 24 | 1883-4-
South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal, Ismont.
General notes: On rocky moist mountain.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NH0116207-0 Collector(s) & number: Hutchings, A, 3230 | 1993-5-5
South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal, Ngoye Forest Reserve
General notes: On rocks in woody outcrop. 0.4m high. Flowers are purple, spots variable, some on inner petals only, some with spots on sepals as well. Leaves are cauline with a straight spotted margin. One specimen has leaves with a slightly wavy margin.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0036820-0 Collector(s) & number: Wells, MJ, 114 | 1961-2-21
South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal, MTUNZINI DIST.; NGOYA FOREST ROAD, SECOND RIGHT HAND BRANCH.
General notes: On rocks in stream bed. Purple flowers.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NH0031898-0 Collector(s) & number: Schweickerdt, HG, 1430 | 1940-3-25
South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal, Inanda.
General notes: Frequent along edge of ...
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0789691-0 Collector(s) & number: Hutchings, A, 3231 | 1993-5-5
South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal, Ngoye; Ngoye Forest Reserve.
General notes: Ex Natal Herbarium, Durban.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NH0101107-0 Collector(s) & number: Ward, MC, 2033 | 1987-4-23
South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal, Ngoye Forest Reserve.
General notes: Altitude: 240m. Lithophyte in stream in forest. Flowers: mauve/pinkish.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0036821-0 Collector(s) & number: Mauve, AA, 4204 | 1962-3-9
South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal, KRANSKOP; TOP OF KRANSKOP, SE. SIDE.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NH0041245-0 Collector(s) & number: Codd, LE, 6975 | 1952-2-29
South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal, Nkandla Forest.
General notes: Altitude: 3800 ft. Flowers: lilac with darker spora. Locally abundant. 12-15 in long. Steep, shale slopes at roadside in forest.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NH0019054-0 Collector(s) & number: Medley-Wood, J, 12257 | 1907-3-18
South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal, Zululand, Ngoye.
General notes: Altitude: 1000-2000 ft. Flowers: lilac
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0036850-0 Collector(s) & number: Wood, JM, 5650 | 1895-4-16
South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal, ZULULAND; NGOYE.
General notes: Alt. 1000--2000'.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NH0034084-0 Collector(s) & number: West, O, 1984 | 1948-4-1
South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal, Kranzkop. Umtunjambili Forest.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NH0116198-0 Collector(s) & number: Hutchings, A, 3217 | 1993-3-8
South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal, Ngoye Forest Reserve. Path leading off old woodcutters road to junction of streams.
General notes: On rocky outcrop in river in forest, near junction of two streams.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0036826-0 Collector(s) & number: Strey, RG, 4947 | 1964-1-6
South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal, MTUNZINI DIST.; NGOYA FOREST, SE. PART.
General notes: Flow. 02.1965 in Natal Herb. Gard.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0036852-0 Collector(s) & number: Platt, C, PRE 27153 | 1943-5-15
South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal, ESHOWE; NEAR ESHOWE.
General notes: Cultivated at Natal University College, P.M.B. Figd. for F.P.S.A. by E.K. Burges, 15.05.1943.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0036853-0 Collector(s) & number: Ward, CJ, 2261 | 1954-3-28
South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal, HLABISA DIST.; NHLWATI.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NH0116221-0 Collector(s) & number: Hutchings, A, 3216 | 1993-3-12
South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal, Ngoye Forest Reserve.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0036816-0 Collector(s) & number: Codd, LEW, 6975 | 1952-2-29
South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal, NKANDLA DIST.; NKANDLA FOREST.
General notes: Locally abundant.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NH0042226-0 Collector(s) & number: Ward, CJ, 2261 | 1954-11-28
South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal, Zululand, Hlabisa. Hluhluwe Game Reserve. Nhlwati.
General notes: In shallow soil with moss on small ledges of south facing cliff. Common. Flowers: mauve with darker spots on perianth lobes.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
This map contains point-based occurrences at different locations
2020
PERIODICAL/JOURNAL
A taxonomic revision of Stenoglottis (Orchideae, Orchidoideae, Orchidaceae) Phillips, DP; Bytebier, BPhytotaxa 456(3)219-243
2019
SERIES CHAPTER
Orchidaceae Bredenkamp, CL; Bredenkamp, GJ; Archer, C; Meyer, NLIn: CL Bredenkamp (ed.), A Flora of the Eastern Cape Province. Strelitzia 41(3)1890-1958
South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria
2008
PERIODICAL/JOURNAL
A review of the genus Stenoglottis Lindley McDonald, GJOrchids of South Africa 39(2)6-12
1944
PERIODICAL/JOURNAL
Stenoglottis longifolia Hook.f. Dyer, RA; Burges, EKFlowering Plants of South Africa 24: , t.933
No results found for Stenoglottis longifolia Hook.f.
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