Brachycorythis mixta Summerh., Kew Bull. 10: 263 (1955).
Description:
Terrestrial herb 30–50 cm tall. Leaves numerous, up to 5 × 1 cm, lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, acuminate, densely pubescent. Inflorescence 10–15 × 3 cm, densely many-flowered; ovary and pedicel c. 15 mm long; bracts leaf-like, up to 20 × 3 mm, pubescent. Sepals and petals yellow-green, purplish on the outside; lip bright yellow, mauve-tinged in throat. Sepals 6.5–7 × 3.7–4.5 mm; dorsal sepal elliptic, obtuse; lateral sepals obliquely ovate. Petals c. 5.5 × 2.5 mm, oblong, obtuse, forming a hood with the dorsal sepal. Lip hypochile 2–3 mm long, cup-shaped; epichile projecting horizontally, rather fleshy, c. 7.3 × 7.5 mm, obovate, 3-lobed towards the apex, the sides reflexed, lateral lobes larger than the mid-lobe. Mid-lobe often upturned. Column short and stout.
Notes:
This species is close to B. pubescens, but is separated on flower colour and differences in the lip.
Habitat:
Dambo and seasonally wet upland grassland.
Distribution:
Angola to Zambia
