Neobolusia stolzii Schltr., Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 53: 482 (1915).
Description:
Plant 15-45 cm. high. Leaves 2-4, the lowest sheathing, the middle ones lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, to 9 cm. long and 1.2 cm. broad, the uppermost similar to the bracts. Inflorescence up to 8-flowered, to 16 cm. long; bracts lanceolate, the lower ones longer than the flowers. Flowers with greenish sepals and whitish or purplish petals and lip, spreading; ovary, 7-10 mm. long. Sepals broadly lanceolate, acuminate, the laterals oblique 6-7.5 mm. long. Petals obliquely ovate, acute, ± 4.5 mm. long, the margins ciliate. Lip spathulate-oblong, apiculate, 6.5-7 mm. long, ± 4 mm. broad in front, with a large raised hairy callus in the lower centre. Column 2.5-3 mm. tall.
Habitat.
In open wet bog verge and wet upland grasslands at elevations of 1850 to 2600 meters.
Cultivation:
Not in cultivation, cool to cold growing terrestrial.
Distribution:
Tanzania to Zimbabwe
References:
Flora of Tropical East Africa Summerhayes Orchidaceae Part 1 1968; The Orchids of South Central Africa Williamson 1977; Genera Orchidacearum Volume 2 Part One Pridgeon, Cribb, Chase and Rasmussen 2001; Flora Zambesiaca Vol 11, Part 1, (1995) Author: I. la Croix and P.J. Cribb; New or Little Known Orchids from East Africa P. J. Cribb, Kew Bulletin, Vol. 34, No. 2 (1979), pp. 321-340; TYPE MATERIAL OF STOLZ'S AFRICAN ORCHIDACEAE CONSERVED AT THE NATURHISTORISKA RIKSMUSEET STOCKHOLM (s) Eric A. Christenson, Selbyana, Vol. 10, No. 1 (1987), pp. 63-64
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