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Terrestrial herbs with tuberous roots. Leaves basal and cauline, few. Flowers in a lax sessile spike. Sepals free. Petals very oblique, attached to column below. Lip entire or (in ours) 3-lobed, neither saccate nor spurred; basal part with a callus. Column erect, slender. Pollinia granular; caudicles short; viscidia rather large, naked.
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Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Neobolusia Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=407
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Neobolusia

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Neobolusia is a genus of flowering plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae. It contains 3 known species, all native to eastern and southern Africa.[1]

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References

  • Pridgeon, A.M., Cribb, P.J., Chase, M.A. & Rasmussen, F. eds. (1999). Genera Orchidacearum 1. Oxford Univ. Press.
  • Pridgeon, A.M., Cribb, P.J., Chase, M.A. & Rasmussen, F. eds. (2001). Genera Orchidacearum 2. Oxford Univ. Press.
  • Pridgeon, A.M., Cribb, P.J., Chase, M.A. & Rasmussen, F. eds. (2003). Genera Orchidacearum 3. Oxford Univ. Press
  • Berg Pana, H. 2005. Handbuch der Orchideen-Namen. Dictionary of Orchid Names. Dizionario dei nomi delle orchidee. Ulmer, Stuttgart
  • Media related to Neobolusia at Wikimedia Commons
  • Data related to Neobolusia at Wikispecies
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Neobolusia: Brief Summary

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Neobolusia is a genus of flowering plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae. It contains 3 known species, all native to eastern and southern Africa.

Neobolusia ciliata Summerh. - Zimbabwe, Mozambique Neobolusia stolzii Schltr. - Zimbabwe, Tanzania Neobolusia tysonii (Bolus) Schltr. - Eswatini, Lesotho, South Africa
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