Photos to the left are believed to be C. afer.
NATURAL DISTRIBUTION:Tropical Africa - Gabon, Ghana, Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya, westward to Sierra Leone, moist places in forest and at forest edges, 190-1200 m.
HEIGHT:1 to 4 meters
Plant Part | General | Color | Hairs | Texture | Shape | Length | Width |
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Rhizome | 0 to 0 cm | 0 to 0 cm | |||||
Sheath | | green | 0 to 0 cm | 0 to 12 mm | |||
Ligule | marquee by a line in relief, on both sides of the | | truncate-ondulee | 4 to 12 mm | 0 to 0 mm | ||
Petiole | | | | | 3 to 8 mm | 0 to 0 mm | |
Leaf | | | oblanceolate, slightly rounded | 15 to 35 cm | 3 to 9 cm | ||
...upper | dark green | glabrous | papery, coriacious | | | ||
...under | | glabrous, line of hairs at margiun | |||||
...base | | | | ||||
...apex | acuminate | 0 to 0 mm | |||||
Inflorescence | Basal - from separate leafless shoot | | | globular | 0 to 0 cm | 3 to 4 cm | |
Bract | bracts covering the calyx | green w/ red margins | | | ovate to broadly elliptical | 2.0 to 3.5 cm | 3.0 to 0.0 cm |
Appendage | NONE | | | 0.0 to 0.0 cm | 0.0 to 0.0 cm | ||
Bracteole | | | | carinate, callus on appendage | boat shape | 2.5 to 0.0 cm | 0.8 to 0.0 cm |
Flower | slightly fragrant, 2 fowers per bract | white | | | 0 to 0 cm | 0 to 0 cm | |
Calyx | pale green, reddish margin | glabrous or slightly pubescent at the apex | thin, almost transparent | 3 lobed | 1.7 to 2.0 cm | 0.0 to 0.0 cm | |
Corolla | white | | chartaceous | | 4.0 to 4.5 cm | 0.0 to 0.0 cm | |
Labellum | | white, pink-violet margin, yellow-orange blotch | | | funnel, margins slightly irregular | 5.0 to 6.0 cm | 0.0 to 0.0 cm |
Stamen | | | | 3.0 to 0.0 cm | 1.2 to 0.0 cm |