Nervilia adolphi var. adolphi
Description:
Leaf prostrate or raised, uniformly green or olive green above and green or purple below. Lip mid-lobe usually about half the length of the lip.
Habitat:
High rainfall woodland, submontane grassland, riverine fringe-forest and pine plantations.
Cultivation:
As given for the genus, warm to cool growing terrestrial.
Distribution:
Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea?, the Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaire), Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Mozambique. Alt. 900-1750 m.
References:
Orchidaceae of West-central Africa, vol. 1, Gdansk University Press Gdansk 2010; Orchid Monographs 5 (1991)
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| Photograph© Biodiversity and Landscape Unit. Image used with kind permission. |
Photograph© Biodiversity and Landscape Unit. Image used with kind permission. |
