Porpax repens var. repens
Description:
A small epiphyte. The widely creeping, prostrate, stems like pseudobulbs can form extensive mats, sometimes covering entire trunks and branches of the host trees. Leaves 2 per pseudobulb, suborbicular. Flowers solitary yellow with darker brown-yellow stripes.
Habitat:
In Brachystegia woodland at higher altitudes, 1050 - 2200 m.
Phenology:
Flowering in Dec. - Feb
Notes:
It differs from the rare and restricted Stolzia repens var. obtusa by the much lighter coloured flowers and the longer, lanceolate and acuminate petals and sepals.
Distrubtion:
Burundi, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe.
References:
Summerhayes, V.S. (1953). African orchids XXI Kew Bulletin 8(1) Page 141.; La Croix, I. et al. (1991). Orchids of Malawi A.A. Balkema, Rotterdam Page 184.; La Croix, I. & Cribb, P.J. (1995). Orchidaceae (Part 1) Flora Zambesiaca 11(1) Page 290.; Cribb, P.J. (1978). A revision of Stolzia (Orchidaceae) Kew Bulletin 33(1) Page 87.
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