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Oeceoclades Pandurata
''Oeceoclades pandurata'' is a terrestrial and epiphytic orchid species in the genus ''Oeceoclades'' that is native to eastern Zimbabwe and Madagascar. It was first described by the British botanist Robert Allen Rolfe in 1891 as ''Eulophia pandurata'', then moved to the genus ''Lissochilus'' by Joseph Marie Henry Alfred Perrier de la Bâthie in 1941, and again moved to the genus ''Eulophidium'' by V.S. Summerhayes in 1957. It was finally transferred to the genus ''Oeceoclades'' in 1976 by Leslie Andrew Garay and Peter Taylor. Garay and Taylor noted that this species possesses lateral veins on the labellum that fringed with small hairs. ''Oeceoclades pandurata'' is distinguishable from other species in the genus by the lateral lobes of the labellum, which are free and truncate (an abrupt termination).Garay, L.A., and P. Taylor. 1976The genus ''Oeceoclades'' Lindl.''Botanical Museum Leaflets, Harvard University'' 24(9): 249-274. The type specimen was collected on trees near F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Allen Rolfe
Robert Allen Rolfe (1855, Wilford, Nottinghamshire – 1921, Richmond, Surrey) was an English botanist specialising in the study of orchids. For a time he worked in the gardens at Welbeck Abbey. He entered Kew in 1879 and became second assistant. He was the first curator of the orchid herbarium at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, founded the magazine ''The Orchid Review'', and published many papers on hybrids of different species of orchids. The genus ''Allenrolfea'' of amaranths was named after him by Carl Ernst Otto Kuntze. Rolfe was buried in Richmond Cemetery Richmond Cemetery is a cemetery on Lower Grove Road in Richmond in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, England. The cemetery opened in 1786 on a plot of land granted by an Act of Parliament the previous year. The cemetery has been expande .... Works Rolfe, Robert Allen (1883). "On the Selagineæ described by Linnæus, Bergius, Linnæus, fil., and Thunberg." Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 20(129): 33 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
