Pterygodium connivens Schelpe, Contr. Bolus Herb. 10: 161 (1982).
Description:
Plants slender, to 200 mm; leaves 1-2, linear, to 110 x 14 mm. Inflorescences lax, to c. 90 mm long, 1-6-flowered; bracts ovate-acute, to c. 40 x 12 mm. Flowers 25 x 10 mm, yellowish-green, ovaries c. 17 mm long. Sepals connivent; median sepal narrowly lanceolate, c. 15-17 x 5 mm, ad-nate to the petals; lateral sepals lanceolate, falcate, acuminate, c. 15-17 x 5-6.5 mm. Petals linear, acuminate, falcate, as long as the median sepal. Lip very narrowly linear, c. 4 mm long; appendage cruciform, c. 8 mm tall, apex shortly bilobed. lateral lobes oblong, each c. 4.5 mm long. Stigma lobes at the base of the lip appendage posteriorly. 1 mm long; rostellum c. 1 mm tall, arms c. 3 mm long.
Habitat:
Recorded from only one marsh on the Cape Peninsula near Cape Town, at c. 60 m altitude. Flowering in October (November).
Distribution:
SW. Cape Prov. (Cape Pen.)
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